Letters to Theo

9782070714483

To his brother Theo, Vincent entrusts his days as one entrusts a canvas to the light. Eighteen years of letters in which solitude, the fever of living, and the longing to paint tremble on the page. Between words and colours, a man reveals himself before myth can erase him.

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For eighteen years, Vincent van Gogh writes to his brother Theo, and their correspondence gradually becomes the incandescent journal of a life in search of light. He tells of his wanderings, his hopes, his wounds, his readings, his encounters, and of the painting that imposes itself upon him as an inner necessity. Each letter opens a window onto the man behind the paintings: solitary, passionate, vulnerable, yet possessed of a fierce lucidity. To Theo, he entrusts his canvases as he entrusts his thoughts, seeking in his brother's gaze an echo of what the world still struggles to understand. From The Hague to Arles, from Saint-Rémy to Auvers, his words accompany the unfolding of a body of work ablaze with colour and life. This essential correspondence thus traces, with rare force, the portrait of an artist reaching for the light even as, letter by letter, he struggles to grasp himself.

Description & Features

Authors
Vincent van Gogh
Publisher
Gallimard
Dimensions
13 x 19
Publication year
1988
Number of pages
574
EAN
9782070714483