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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2 May 1882)
... the drawings being mounted on cardboard.
With regard to this one I hammered it off in a single day,
having studied the same spot and trees for “The
Roots.” So it has been done “tout d'un trait”
out of doors, and has not even been in my studio.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 10-12 August 1882)
... sentiment for it, or was unable to do it?
But I have attached great value to drawing and will continue
to do so, because it is the backbone of painting, the skeleton
that supports all the rest. I like it so much, Theo, that it is
only because of the expenses... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 September 1882)
... no matter
what may be said about it.
I said to myself while I was doing it: don't let me leave
before there is something of the autumnal evening in it,
something mysterious, something important. However - because
this effect doesn't last - I had to paint... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(17 September 1882)
... garden, and part of the Geest.
You can see from the enclosed sketch what I want to make -
groups of people who are in action some way or another. But how
difficult it is to bring life and movement into it and to put
the figures in their places, yet separate... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 2 or 3 November 1882)
... than, for instance, about the last Salon.
Now what you write about the Vie Moderne, or rather
about the kind of paper that Buhot promised you, - this is
something which interests me very much. Do I understand rightly
that this paper is such that when one... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(22 November 1882)
... things
which were in the drawing.
The drawing was
not done with lithographic crayon only, but
was touched up with autographic ink. Now the stone has only
partly caught that autographic ink, and we do not know what to
ascribe it to, probably my diluting... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(26 and 27 November 1882)
... I had scarcely been outdoors this week.
As to the lithography, I hope to get a proof tomorrow of a
little old man. I hope it will turn out well. I made it with a
kind of chalk especially patterned for this process, but I am
afraid that after all the common... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(26 November 1882)
... The latter was much more striking as a drawing; in
the lithograph I have used autographic ink, which did not
transfer very well, and the “quickness” of the
drawing has to a great extent gone out of it. There was also
more animation in the black parts,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 21 December 1882)
... on the drawings
is the main thing.
As to lithography, as I have assisted a few times at the
printing and the preparation of the stone, I think I shall try
to make some lithographs without having recourse to paper, etc.
- simply by drawing on the stone itself.... |
