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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 7 July 1888)
... they will be criticized as hasty.
I know also that I hope to stick to my argument of this
winter, when we were talking about an association of artists.
Not that I still have any great desire for it or hope to
realize it, but as it was seriously thought... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(c. 17 July 1888)
... colour
and the logical composition.
My dear friend Bernard, by collaboration I did not
mean to say that I think two or more painters would have to
work on the same pictures. What I was driving at was paintings
that differ from one another yet go together... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 13 August 1888)
... handshake.
Ever yours, Vincent
With regard to Gauguin, however much we appreciate him, I
think that we must behave like the mother of a family and
calculate the actual expenses. If one listened to him, one
would go on hoping for something vague in the... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 18 August 1888)
... and the 100-fr. note
enclosed.
And it's very good of you to promise the two of us, Gauguin
and me, that you'll put us in the way to carrying out our
combination.
I have just had a letter from Bernard, who went some days
ago to join Gauguin,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 September 1888)
... at the bullfight and outside the
town. We talked more seriously about the plan, that if I keep a
place in the south, he ought to set up a sort of post among the
collieries. Then Gauguin and I and he, if the importance of a
picture made it worth the journey, could... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(4 September 1888)
... out as far as colours are concerned.
Neither Gauguin nor Bernard has written again. I think that
Gauguin doesn't care a damn about it, because it isn't going to
be done at once, and I for my part, seeing that Gauguin has
managed to muddle along by himself... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 11 September 1888)
... is complicated by the payment of a
debt. Unless Gauguin pooled everything and let you have all his
work, so that we'd keep no accounts but make common cause
together. If we had a common purse and make common cause, I
think myself that after a few years' working... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 26 September 1888)
... drawings in the style of the others.
I wrote to him that since Gauguin had not definitely stated
if he would come or would not come I could not offer Bernard
the free hospitality, or even paid in pictures or drawings.
That here just his food alone would... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(28 September 1888)
... send you his letter with the
replies.
Certainly his arrival would be an increase of 100 percent in
the importance of this enterprise of doing painting in the
Midi. And once here, I don't see him leaving again because I
believe that he would take root here.... |
