April 12, 2024
Easton Press: VINCENT VAN GOGH: DUTCH ARTIST: ARLES, FRANCE: THE HAGUE: PARIS
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Easton Press leather edition of Philip Carrow's "Vincent Van Gogh: A Life," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Foreword by Steven Levine, one of the LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES series, published in 1995. Collector's Not is included. 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 un-ordained 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, who was visiting him. Van Gogh cut off his own ears during this seizure. Gauguin tells the story that Vincent had just pocketed five francs for a picture
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