Van Gogh's Women by Derek Fell

Author:Derek Fell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910232422
Publisher: Pavilion Books
Published: 2015-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

I don’t know whether you can understand that one may make a poem only by arranging colours, in the same way that one can say comforting things with music.

In a similar manner the bizarre lines, purposely selected and multiplied, meandering all through the picture, avoid a vulgar resemblance, but may present to our minds the garden as seen in a dream, depicting its character, and at the same time stranger than it is in reality. [November 16, 1888.]

Vincent had also painted A Woman Reading a Novel, he told Wil. In the painting a young woman, her facial features sharp and her hair luxuriant, is wearing a green bodice, sleeves the colour of wine, and a black skirt against a yellow background, and shelves filled with books. In her hands she is holding a yellow book. It is the beginning of a whole series of dynamic portraits using a host of local characters as models, including a man with one eye. The painting of the young woman was followed by L’Arlesienne, an older woman with sharp features. The entire Roulin family appears in the work of this period: their youngest, Camille, in The Schoolboy; Armand, their second son, as a young man in a trilby, in Portrait of Armand Roulin; Roulin’s wife Augustine in numerous poses, mostly with her baby Marcelle, who is all big blue eyes and chubby cheeks.

Almost as an afterthought, Vincent added: ‘But I have not told you that my friend Paul Gauguin, an Impressionist painter, is now living with me, and that we are very happy together. He strongly encourages me to work more often from imagination.’

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