Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 5 April 1889) ... I have still to thank you for your last letter, as well as
for the consignment of paints from Tasset and for several
numbers of Le Fifre with drawings by Forain. These last
especially had the effect on me of making me see my own stuff
as very sentimental beside...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 13 April 1889) ... hope that everything has gone off well with you. Meanwhile
I have been obliged to ask Tasset for 10 meters of canvas and
some tubes.
And I still need:
12
Zinc white
...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (22 May 1889) ... even without thinking about
it
These are the paints I need:
3 emerald green
2 cobalt
1 ultramarine
1 orange lead (big tubes)
6 zinc white
5 meters of canvas
Thanking you for your kind letter, I shake your...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (25 June 1889) ... My dear Theo,
Enclosed you will find an order for paints to replace the
one in my last letter. We have had some glorious days and I
have set even more canvases going, so that there are twelve
size 30 canvases in prospect.
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (2 July 1889) ... your parents assures long
life.
Thank you very much for the package of colours. Subtract
them from the order sent since, but if you could manage it,
not for the quantity of white. Thank you also very
heartily for the Shakespeare. It will help...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (6 July 1889) ... apart and has always cost me a
lot.
Thank you very much for the package of colours and canvas,
which I am very glad to have. I hope to go and do the olives
again. Unfortunately there are very few vineyards here.
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 9 July 1889) ... he suffers a good deal from his
gout.
I have received the second package of canvases and paints
and I thank you very much for them.
The last canvas I have done is a view of mountains with a
dark hut at the bottom among some olive trees.
...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (5 or 6 September 1889) ... much like
to see what they are doing.
I must ask for the following things for painting.
10 meters of canvas
Large tubes 6 tubes zinc white
2 tubes emerald green
2 tubes cobalt
Small tubes 2 carmine
1 vermilion...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (7 or 8 September 1889) ... that are not
exactly easy or simple.
Please send me the canvas soon, if at all possible,
and I think I'm also going to need 10 more tubes of zinc
white.
All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery
comes from within, through...
