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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(28 June 1890)
... at the small organ. I will do one for you - I have noticed that
this canvas goes very well with another horizontal one of
wheat , as one canvas is vertical and in pink tones, the other
pale green and greenish yellow, the complementary of pink; but
we are still far from the time when people will understand the
curious relation between one fragment of nature and another,
which all the same explain each other and enhance each other.
But some certainly feel it, and that's something.
And then there is this improvement, that in clothes you see
combinations of very pretty light colours; if you could make
the people you are walking past pose and do their portraits, it
would be as pretty as any period whatever in the past, and I
even think that often in nature there is actually all the grace
of a picture by Puvis, between art and nature. For instance,
yesterday I saw two figures: the mother in a gown of deep
carmine, the daughter in pale pink with a yellow hat without
any ornament, very... |
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