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Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, September-October 1887

Preface

Van Gogh was born in 1853. He began painting at the age of 27 and died
by suicide in 1890, within 10 years of Van Gogh's beginning to paint. Draw,
paint and print over 2,000 images. What spurred Van Gogh to so much of
his work was his serious mental health problems. Van Gogh's works tend to
be violent. Concealed with depth and detail through brush strokes and
chosen colors

As is well known, each of Van Gogh's paintings today is of immense
value. It is utterly tragic to look back while Van Gogh was still alive and to
find that Throughout the life of the painting he could only sell one piece.
And never had the opportunity to experience success and fame at all.

As a result, the book collects a large collection of drawings, paintings and
prints from the Van Gogh Trust in 2013, some of Van Gogh's work. Van
Gogh), a Dutch painter who pioneered the world's most innovative art of the
19th century, is here for everyone to see and learn about the artist's bitter
life.

LIST OF
CONTENTS




02

PREFACE

03

LIST OF CONTENT

04

EARLY LIFE

05-15

THE 10 MOST FAMOUS
VAN GOGH PAINTINGS

16-21

OTHER
VAN GOGH PAINTINGS

22-27

LETTER FROM
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Early Life



Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert,
Netherlands. Van Gogh’s father, Theodorus van Gogh, was an

austere country minister, and his mother, Anna Cornelia
Carbentus, was a moody artist whose love of nature, drawing and

watercolors was transferred to her son.



Van Gogh was born exactly one year after his parents' first son,
also named Vincent, was stillborn. At a young age — with his
name and birthdate already etched on his dead brother's
headstone — van Gogh was melancholy.

The 10 Most
Famous
Van Gogh
Paintings

The Potato Eaters


Van Gogh completed The Potato Eaters in Nuenen in 1885,
during his early years as an artist. His aim was to portray a
village peasant family in their natural setting, having a meal,
rather than posing for the painting. Van Gogh meticulously
planned this painting and hoped to exhibit it at the Paris
Salon. However, the Salon rejected it and the painting was
not successful in Van Gogh’s lifetime.

Sunflowers

Sunflowers is the name of two series of still life paintings that
Van Gogh painted. The first series of Sunflowers, Van Gogh
painted in Paris in 1887. The second series, he painted in 1888
when living in Arles, Provence.

Van Gogh painted the second series of Sunflowers as a
welcoming to his friend and fellow impressionism artist Paul
Gauguin. He wanted to decorate his guest’s bedroom with
these paintings as Gauguin was joining Van Gogh in Arles so
that they could paint together. Indeed they spent some prolific
weeks painting together.

Cafe Terrace at Night






This painting is one of the most recognized and quoted artworks. Its
popularity rivals with Van Gogh’s iconic Sunflowers and Starry Night
paintings.

Van Gogh set up his easel outdoors and in the evening hours to paint
this scene. This was a practice that he picked up from the
impressionists in Paris. However, he did not paint the scene as he
observed it but rather used color and brushwork to express his
emotions. In this painting, Van Gogh portrays excitement and pleasure.

Interestingly, Van Gogh never signed this painting. However, art
historians know that he painted this canvas from numerous letters that
he wrote to his family members about this art piece.

The Bedroom

The Bedroom is the title of three versions of this scene that Van Gogh
painted. These paintings depict Van Gogh’s simple bedroom in the Yellow
House in Arles.

The three different versions are distinguishable from each other by the
pictures on the wall to the right.

On purpose, Van Gogh decided not to apply the rules of perspective to this
scene. He wanted to give this painting a “flattened” look so that it would
resemble a Japanese print.

Starry Night






Van Gogh painted this iconic painting when he was at the mental
asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Although conditions were poor,
Van Gogh’s freedoms were better than most of the other patients.
Van Gogh could roam about in the asylum gardens and had an extra
room to use as a painting studio.

The artist created this painting after a major mental breakdown and
felt depressed and suicidal. The swirls in the sky reflect his emotional
turbulence. The use of darker colors express his dark mood. The scene
of this painting depicts the views of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence that
Van Gogh saw from his bedroom window. However, it is a whimsical
and emotional interpretation of this view.

Irises



While Van Gogh was staying in the asylum in in Saint-Rémy-de-
Provence, he was permitted to spend time in the gardens. He
painted many paintings of the hospital gardens, the Iris paintings
included.

He sent his Iris paintings to his brother Theo who quickly
submitted them into the annual exhibition of the Société des
Artistes Indépendants in September 1889, together with another
Van Gogh painting Starry Night Over the Rhone.

Wheatfields With Crows



Van Gogh painted Wheatfields With Crows less than three weeks
before his suicide. Today it is hailed as one of his most dramatic
paintings.

“They are endless wheatfields under a cloudy sky, and I have not
hesitated to attempt to express sadness and the deepest loneliness”

Vincent van Gogh Quote
In the last few months of is life, Van Gogh painted the wheat fields
of Auvers-sur-Oise quite a few times. There are a few different
versions of the wheat fields, however, this one is the most dramatic.

Portrait of Dr. Gachet

When Van Gogh left the asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, his brother,
Theo, organised for Vincent to move to Auvers-sur-Oise, to live in the
house of a doctor and homeopath, Dr. Paul Gachet. Camille Pissarro
recommended this doctor to Theo, stating that this doctor had a
particular interest in treating artists.

Van Gogh made three portraits of Dr. Gachet, an etching (May 1890)
and two paintings (June 1890). One copy he gave to Dr. Gachet as a gift.
The most famous portrait depicts the doctor sitting at a table and leaning
his head on his right hand. Dr. Gachet’s face portrays a heart-broken
man.

Van Gogh thought Dr. Gatchet was as crazy as him. In a letter to Theo,
Vincent writes ” he certainly seems to be suffering as seriously as I”.

Almond Blossom

Vincent Van Gogh painted the Almond Blossom painting when he heard
the joyful news that his brother Theo and his wife, Jo, just gave birth to a
baby boy. They were naming the baby after him.
Theo wrote in a letter to Vincent the following beautiful words:

“As we told you, we’ll name him after you, and I’m making the wish that he
may be as determined and as courageous as you”

Vincent felt so happy with the news. He decided to paint for them an
almond blossom painting as a gift. To Vincent, almond blossoms represented
all things good, such as beauty, renewal, optimism and hope. Even painting
flowering trees filled Vincent with joy.

Unsurprisingly, it was this Almond Blossom painting that had the most
sentimental value to the Van Gogh family.

At Eternity’s Gate

Van Gogh painted this ‘sorrowful’ painting while convalescing
from a severe mental breakdown during his time at the asylum in
Saint-Rémy de Provence. The painting is based on an earlier
lithograph that he made.

Although this painting is of a pensioner and war veteran, it
makes you wonder if the sorrow you feel in this painting is indeed
a reflection of the artist’s own emotional state. However, Vincent
gave this painting the title Eternity’s Gate. This title indicates that
even during his difficult periods of depression and inner turmoil,
Van Gogh still held onto his faith of god and eternity.

Other
Van Gogh
Paintings

Garden with Courting Couples

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, May 1887

Van Gogh called this sunny park scene 'the painting of the
garden with lovers'. Couples in love are strolling under the young
chestnut trees and sitting along the winding paths.

He used a free variation on the technique of the Pointillists. They
built up their compositions from dots of paint. Van Gogh instead
applied small brushstrokes of varying length in different directions.
This helped him to create the effect of a radiant spring day, which
fit the sense of intimacy and togetherness he wished to express.
He too longed for a wife and a family, but he had 'the most
impossible love affairs'. He eventually resigned himself to the
situation; he was devoted to his art.

Gate in the Paris Ramparts

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, June-September 1887

In the summer of 1887, Van Gogh made four watercolour drawings
of the city walls around Paris. This is most likely the Porte de Clichy –
one of 25 gates leading into the French capital.
The lively cityscape is filled with little figures and details like the
horse-drawn tram. Van Gogh drew inspiration for this drawing from
the crowded street scenes in Japanese prints. The bright colours of
those prints also stimulated his creativity.

This cityscape is one of the few drawings he made in Paris. He
mostly worked in oil paint on canvas during his time there and
developed a brighter, more modern colour palette. Colour and
brightness also play a central role in this watercolour drawing.

Wheatfield under
Thunderclouds

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Auvers-sur-Oise, July 1890

In the last weeks of his life, Van Gogh completed a number of impressive
paintings of the wheatfields around Auvers. This outspread field under a dark
sky is one of them.

In these landscapes he tried to express 'sadness, extreme loneliness'. But
the overwhelming emotions that Van Gogh experienced in nature were also
positive. He wrote to his brother Theo, 'I'd almost believe that these canvases
will tell you what I can't say in words, what I consider healthy and fortifying
about the countryside.'

The elongated format of Wheatfields under Thunderclouds is unusual. It
emphasizes the grandeur of the landscape, as does the simple composition:
two horizontal planes.

Wheatfield with a Reaper

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-
Provence, September 1889

Van Gogh painted this walled field from his hospital room. For the first
few months that he was there, he was not allowed to leave the grounds.

The reaper labours in the heat of the sun. The wheat, painted with
thick gobs of yellow, undulates around him. For Van Gogh, wheat was a
symbol of the eternal cycle of nature and the transience of life. He saw
the reaper as 'the image of death . . . in this sense that humanity would
be the wheat being reaped.'

He added, however, that this death was 'almost smiling. It's all yellow
except for a line of violet hills – a pale, blond yellow. I myself find that
funny, that I saw it like that through the iron bars of a cell.'

Landscape with a Stack of
Peat and Farmhouses

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Drenthe, September-
December 1883

The dark structure in the middle of the drawing looks like a
cottage, but it is actually a stack of peat. In Drenthe, peat was
stacked in the form of a house with a sloping roof. Van Gogh
gave the stack of peat a central place in his composition and
showed its reflection in the ditch.

He wrote to his brother Theo that at dusk the fields of Drenthe
were transformed into a 'sublime' place, 'when that vast, sun-
scorched earth stands out dark against the delicate lilac tints of
the evening sky, and the very last fine dark blue line on the horizon
separates earth from sky'.

Letter from
vincent

Van Gogh

Letter from Vincent van Gogh
to Anna van Gogh-Carbentus

and Willemien van Gogh

Letter from Vincent van Gogh
to Theo van Gogh and Jo van

Gogh-Bonger

Letter from Vincent van Gogh
to Theo van Gogh and Jo van

Gogh-Bonger

Letter from Vincent van Gogh
to Theo van Gogh and Jo van

Gogh-Bonger

Sheet 1 of a letter from
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van

Gogh with sketch of Cicada

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