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...cornfields and let the landscape write itself through him are refuted by the actual sequence of his drawings. Some of his most vivid and impassioned-looking sketches-the coiling, toppling surf, the silent explosion of wheat stocks, the sun grinding in the speckled sky above the road to Tarascon-are in fact copies he made after his own paintings and sent to his fellow painters Emile Bernard and John Russell to show them what he had been up to. As a draughts man, Van Gogh was obsessively interested in stylistic coherence. Just as one can movements of "his brush imitating...
...windows, he uses reproductions from art books and sensational photos from newspapers as his models. He painted a series of gnarled, garishly colored portraits of his predecessor in agony, Vincent Van Gogh, after reproductions of the Dutch artist's long-lost The Artist on the Road to Tarascon. Most famous of his serial portraits are those of screaming pontiffs modeled after a papal commission by Velásquez (see opposite page). Though he has been through Rome, where Pope Innocent X's portrait hangs in the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, Bacon has never gone...
...Pearlman Collection continues upstairs in Gallery XVII, which it shares with works from the Fogg's 19th century collection. Up here, the range and quality of the works is extremely impressive. Van Gogh's famous Tarascon Diligence is still a fresh visual experience upon its first encounter; its use of heavy brushwork, vividly dominant colors and incised outlines are Van Gogh at his best. Only an awkwardly distorted ladder disturbs this great masterpiece. Next to this work are a small and good Renoir Nude and a very fine Woman in a Round Hat by Manet...
Although the picture, of two high-wheeled Tarascon Coaches, has been catalogued as an authentic Van Gogh and was mentioned by the artist in a letter to his brother, few art lovers have ever had a chance to see even so much as a photograph of it. Bought by an Italian sculptor who gave it to a friend from Montevideo, it had been kept most of the time since 1906 in a family vault in Uruguay...
Last spring, when an art dealer brought Tarascon Coaches to New York, a few museum directors and private collectors got a look at it before the present owner paid an undisclosed price (probably close to $85,000), carried it home...