April 12, 2024
Easton Press: VINCENT VAN GOGH: DUTCH ARTIST: POTATOE EATERS: SELF-PORTRAIT
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Easton Press leather edition of Meyer Schapiro's "Vincent Van Gogh," a COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the LIBRARY OF AMERICAN ART series, Frontispiece: Road with Cypress, Printed in JAPAN, and published in 1983. Bound in tan leather, the book has paper end leaves, satin book marker, Symth-sewn binding, acid-free paper, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Dutch painter VINCENT van GOGH lived from 1853-1890. He was born near Breda in the Netherlands. When he was sixteen his parents sent him to The Hague to work for his uncle who was an art dealer, but Van Gogh was unsuited for business. He applied for theology school but was rejected; therefore, he became an unordained preacher. He worked as a minister in the Borinage, a poor coal-mind district in Belgium, going without food to provide for the poor. While in Borinage, Van Gogh began to paint, first still lives and scenes of peasants at work. "The Potato Eaters" (1885) is his finest and most ambitious work of this period. In 1886, he went to PARIS to visit his brother, Theo and was attracted to the impressionist art he saw there. In 1888, he moved to ARLES where he painted sunflowers. In Arles, he suffered from occasional violent seizures, which were diagnosed after his death as epilepsy. During a seizure late in 1888, he threatened to kill the French painter Paul Gauguin,
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