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Vincent van Gogh, by Julius Meier-Grafe...
VINCENT VAN GOGH-Julius Meier-Graefe-Harcourt, Brace...
Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was a Dutch parson's son. An unattractive, awkward, violent young man, he wanted to go into the Church, but was too modest. Instead he carried with him, first into the polite world of the art business, then into garrets, brothels and studios, the wild religious longings that never left him. His only friend was his younger brother Theo. Together, before they went out into the world, they swore "to strive all their lives only for good." Vincent's family was connected with the Dutch branch of Goupil et Cie., famous Paris...
...spite of their dissimilarity the two got along fairly well till one day van Gogh suggested in all seriousness that they paint pictures together, each contributing the thing he was best at. Gauguin laughed all the way to the town brothel. There one of the girls told van Gogh that if he could not give her a five-franc piece for a Christmas present he might at least make her a gift of one of his big lop-ears. Next day, with no apparent provocation, van Gogh hurled an absinthe glass at Gauguin. The day following, he left a parcel...
...Author, who takes a deep view of artists, thinks van Gogh was less gifted with imagination and talent than the average man. "But if the word artist . . . is a synonym for a man of such moral tenor that he only sets a further goal to his aspiration as his consciousness gains in the deepening perception of Nature and her laws, then Vincent was an artist and the greatest of our time...