April 12, 2024
Easton Press: Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch Art: Paris
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Easton Press: Vincent Van Gogh Easton Press FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of "Vincent Van Gogh," by Meyer Schapiro, a COLLECTOR'S Edition, published in 1983. Bound in a Most Handsome camel tan Moroccan cowhide, the book has decorative end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, 22 kt. gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. 128 pages. Vincent Van Gogh, who lived from 1853-1890, was born in near Breda, The Netherlands. When he was sixteen his parents sent him to the HAGUE to work for an uncle who was an art dealer. But Van Gogh was unsuited for a business career. In 1878, he applied for admission to a theological school but was rejected. He then became an unordained preacher and became a minister in a poor coal-mining district in Belguim. He took his work seriously, going without food and other necessities to give to the poor. He began to draw and decided to become a painter in 1880. Van Gogh's first pictures were still lifes and scenes of peasants at work. He favored dark browns and olive colors and heavy brushstrokes. "The Potato Eaters" (1885) is his finest and most ambitious work of this period. In 1886, Van Gogh went to PARIS to visit his brother, Theo, and was immediately attracted to the IMPRESSIONIST movement. He lightened his brushstrokes and used bright, clear colors. In 1888, he moved to ARLES in
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