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...Gogh's Public Garden at Aries fell to Manhattan Dealers Rosenberg & Stiebel for $369,600, highest price ever for a Van Gogh. (Goldschmidt bought it for about...
This note by the 19-year-old Vincent van Gogh, then a salesman in Goupil's art gallery in The Hague, to his younger brother Theo, 15, began the greatest correspondence in the history of art. Eighteen years and hundreds of letters later, it was to end with the letter found in Vincent's pocket after he had fatally shot himself with a revolver: "Well, the truth is, we can only make our pictures speak. But yet, my dear brother . . . I tell you again that I shall always consider you to be something more than a simple dealer...
...From Van Gogh's letters have already been quarried bestsellers, psychoanalytical monographs and at least one better-than-average movie, Lust for Life (TIME, Sept. 24, 1956). But a fuller and more vivid story than any of these is revealed with the publication of The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh (New York Graphic Society; $50), a handsome three-volume set that includes 194 tipped-in facsimiles of the illustrations Vincent sketched into his letters, with the heedless profusion of a man who had far more confidence in his draftsmanship than in his vocabulary. No more stark and intimate...
Vincent van Gogh was 27 when he found his profession; he was 37 when he died. In the ten years he painted more than 800 canvases, turned out as many or more drawings and watercolors. There is hardly a step of the way that his letters do not chronicle and enlighten...
...circles near the century's turn; at his farmhouse near Paris. The son of musician parents, husky Maurice worked intermittently as a factory hand, bicycle racer and gypsy fiddler, turned intently to painting in his 205 after his first awed exposure to the explosive colors of Van Gogh and a chance meeting with Fauve-to-be Andre Derain. Vlaminck became famous overnight after shrewd Dealer Ambroise Vollard bought a collection of his dashingly hued, bold-lined canvases in 1906. He dispiritedly followed other Fauves into cubism, but soon drifted away from Montmartre coteries. After World War I he retired...