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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 1 June 1885)
... on showing it and I shall go on sending.
If he will write me his observations, I think they may be
useful to me, and he must not hold them back. I must tell you
that I sometimes long very much to see the Louvre and the
Luxembourg again, and that sooner or later... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 4 September 1885)
... the September Lhermitte, it is
splendid. You write about the Poussins in the Louvre; I am very
fond of Poussin. But how long - too long - is it since I saw
those paintings? You cannot imagine what a longing I have to
see pictures. I shall have to satisfy it anyhow.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(10 or 11 October 1885)
... beautiful figure. It
is unique.
Delacroix would have raved about it - absolutely raved. I
was literally rooted to the spot. Well you know “The
Singer,” that laughing fellow - a bust in a
greenish-black with carmine, carmine in the flesh colour
... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(October 1885)
... and did not retouch it so very much.
And please note this too - if it was right, they left it
as it was. I have especially admired the hands by Rembrandt
and Hals, certain hands in “The Syndics,” even in
“The Jewish Bride,” and... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(8-12 November 1885)
... work can also be looked at up
close).
In that respect Chardin is as great as Rembrandt.
Israëls is the same, and I for my part think Israëls
always admirable, especially in his technique. It would be too
good if everybody knew this, and thought... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 18-22 November 1885)
... crushed than will
prove possible now.
As for Rubens, I am looking forward to him very much, but do
you object to my thinking Rubens's conception and sentiment of
his religious subjects theatrical, often even badly theatrical
in the worst sense of the word?... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(8-15 December 1885)
... black hair. Lilac tones
in the dress.
Rubens is certainly making a strong impression on me; I
think his drawing tremendously good - I mean the drawing of
heads and hands in themselves. I am quite carried away by his
way of drawing the lines in a face with... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(28 December 1885)
... seed corn for the future. We shall see.
Yesterday I saw a large photograph of a Rembrandt I didn't
know - I was tremendously impressed by it - it was the head of
a woman, the light falling on breast, throat, chin, the tip of
the nose and the lower jaw. Forehead... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 28 January 1886)
... did the same as Géricault.]
That method - Millet too draws in the same way, more than
anybody else - is perhaps the root of all figure painting, it
depends enormously on that drawing the modelling directly with
the brush, quite a different conception... |
