Relevant paintings: "Baby," Vincent van Gogh [Enlarge]
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Dear brother,
I am sending you some more studies by the same mail. And
this is a thought which came to me recently:
If you don't get tired of seeing such sketches, I think it
would be a good thing to send you, for instance, about sixty
sketches in a small portfolio. You could look them over in your
room at your ease, and the advantage would be that against the
time of your coming here, sooner or later, you would have seen
some of the things I did last year. Otherwise we should have to
look them over in such a hurry if you were only here for a
short time. But if you approve of looking them over beforehand,
and if I send them now, then I hope I may count on your
bringing them back with you this summer, for instance, for I
shall have to work from those studies later on.
My next work partly depends on keeping the studies together.
Well, maybe they will amuse you - for instance, perhaps some of
those old almshouse men are very typical. Well, let me know
what you think of them.
As I had to pay some bills after the New Year, I am
practically already without money now - at least, very little
is left. You will greatly oblige me if you try to send rather
before than after the tenth.
Adieu, boy, I hope the sketches will be more or less to your
liking.
Yours sincerely, Vincent
The drawings I should like to send you are like the figures
of the lithographs, all kinds of types - men, women,
children.
Front Reverse
[Sketches enclosed in letter]
At this time, Vincent was 29 year oldSource: Vincent van Gogh. Letter to Theo van Gogh. Written 5 or 6 January 1883 in The Hague. Translated by Mrs. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, edited by Robert Harrison, number 258. URL: https://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/12/258.htm.
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