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In the letters, every twist of Van Gogh’s lurching career comes alive with passionate descriptions, disputes and defences that leave no step unscrutinised and no painting unannotated. We can trace the course of his early piety and social activism, his apprenticeship in the European art business with Goupil & Cie, his doomed love for the ex-prostitute Sien Hoornik, the agonising struggle to make his own wayward talent blossom, bohemian adventures, revelations and breakthroughs in Paris, the climactic dream of fulfilment in art and life through the Arles “studio of the south” – and the uneasy peace of its aftermath in the Saint-Rmy asylum.
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Nienke Bakker gave me a sneak preview of the Amsterdam display. As we gingerly lifted up the brown paper that still covered the panels, workmen sawed and hammered to finish off the cases in preparation for this week’s opening. The writer-artist would have been in his element amid this honest toil. I can’t read his Dutch, but Vincent wrote around a thir …
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