Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (16 October 1888) ... shaping up. For today I
am all right again. My eyes are still tired but then I had
a new idea in my head and here is the sketch of it. Another size 30
canvas. This time it's just simply my bedroom ,
only here colour is to do everything, and giving by its
...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (17 October 1888) ... nothing, only flat colours in harmony.
I do not know what I shall undertake next, for my eyes are
still tired even yet.
And in just such moments after hard work - and all the more
the harder it is - I feel my own noodle empty too, you
know.
...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Paul Gauguin (17 October 1888) ... was like Japan yet! Childish, wasn't it?
Listen, the other day I wrote you that my eyesight was
strangely tired. All right, I rested for two and a half days,
and then set to work again, but without daring to go out into
the open air yet. I have done, still...
Letter from Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh (19 October 1888) ... I may read it. I am quite eager to know it.
It is very annoying that you have been having trouble with your
eyes. What can be the cause of that?
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (17 January 1889) ... still there? Don't let them get discouraged.
After my illness my eyes have naturally been very sensitive. I
have been looking at that “Croque-mort”
[undertaker] of De Haans, which he was good enough to send me
the photograph of. Well, it seems...
