Unknown Van Gogh. The last year of the artist"s life
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About the book
This book is an illustrated story about Van Gogh"s stay in the shelter (mentally ill) Saint-Pol-de-de-Mozol near the city of Saint-Reme-de-Provence in the southeast of France. The artist came here, after he cut his ear - his joint work with the Gauguin field ended with such a terrible episode. Van Gogh lived in the hospital for 374 days - from May 8, 1889 to May 16, 1890. Here the master created a series of masterpieces - cypresses, wheat fields, olive groves and sunsets. The artist wrote little about this secluded place in letters to his brother, so the book is valued by a description of previously unknown details of life and creativity.
Martin Bailey is one of the few modern Van Gogh specialists who managed to visit the clinic and see with their own eyes where the artist lived. And the photographs taken by the author are the first color pictures of the clinic in the literature about Van Gogh. The author talks about the features of paintings written by Van Gogh in this place, connects them with the biographical facts and features of the artist’s work.
It also recently became known that the first drawing of the star night (created by Van Gogh for relatives, to more likely share your favorite work), was stored in Russia for a long time. Martin Bailey saw a drawing and devoted his story to one of the chapters of the book.
From the author
On the day of Van Gogh arrived in the hospital, there were only 18 male patients. The artist was in this small company for a whole year, experiencing their suffering with them. Gradually, he recognized these people well and called "my brothers in misfortune." The registration log does not contain medical data, but, having found out the names of the patients, I was able to contact other sources in an attempt to learn something about their origin and diagnoses. I was shocked when I found how serious the ailments of the majority were - and how it overshadowed the atmosphere in which the painter was. Now I realized: Van Gogh did not exaggerate when he wrote that he constantly hears screams and terrible cries, as if animals are howling in a vagabond animal.
I wanted to know more about how the artist lived there.
It is unnecessary to say that he was far from the family, friends and other artists, but he had the opportunity to continue to write paintings.
Van Gogh"s passion for painting helped to transfer life in the hospital. Here he worked a lot, more than 150 works came to us and, probably, a couple of dozens of are lost. It turns out incredible productivity: one picture every two days.
"Star Night" is a symbol of the period that Van Gogh spent in the hospital. Three quarters of all time, he retained clarity of the mind and amazing performance. However, there was a series of crises when the master seemed to plunge into darkness and could not write at all. But every time he returned from the depths of despair. He came to the light, picking a brush in his hands again. “Star night” is a vivid testimony of the artist’s stubborn struggle with the difficulties of life.
For whom this book
For all fans of the work of Vincent Van Gogh.
About the author
Martin Bailey is a leading specialist in Van Gogh in the UK, a modern artist biographer, artist, London correspondent of The Art Newspaper. Bailey oversee several exhibitions about Van Gogh, including one in the National Gallery of British Art of Tate Britain in 2019, and wrote a lot about the artist. Among his books The Sunflowers are Mine (2013), Studio of the South (2016) and "Star Night" (2018)
This book is an illustrated story about Van Gogh"s stay in the shelter (mentally ill) Saint-Pol-de-de-Mozol near the city of Saint-Reme-de-Provence in the southeast of France. The artist came here, after he cut his ear - his joint work with the Gauguin field ended with such a terrible episode. Van Gogh lived in the hospital for 374 days - from May 8, 1889 to May 16, 1890. Here the master created a series of masterpieces - cypresses, wheat fields, olive groves and sunsets. The artist wrote little about this secluded place in letters to his brother, so the book is valued by a description of previously unknown details of life and creativity.
Martin Bailey is one of the few modern Van Gogh specialists who managed to visit the clinic and see with their own eyes where the artist lived. And the photographs taken by the author are the first color pictures of the clinic in the literature about Van Gogh. The author talks about the features of paintings written by Van Gogh in this place, connects them with the biographical facts and features of the artist’s work.
It also recently became known that the first drawing of the star night (created by Van Gogh for relatives, to more likely share your favorite work), was stored in Russia for a long time. Martin Bailey saw a drawing and devoted his story to one of the chapters of the book.
From the author
On the day of Van Gogh arrived in the hospital, there were only 18 male patients. The artist was in this small company for a whole year, experiencing their suffering with them. Gradually, he recognized these people well and called "my brothers in misfortune." The registration log does not contain medical data, but, having found out the names of the patients, I was able to contact other sources in an attempt to learn something about their origin and diagnoses. I was shocked when I found how serious the ailments of the majority were - and how it overshadowed the atmosphere in which the painter was. Now I realized: Van Gogh did not exaggerate when he wrote that he constantly hears screams and terrible cries, as if animals are howling in a vagabond animal.
I wanted to know more about how the artist lived there.
It is unnecessary to say that he was far from the family, friends and other artists, but he had the opportunity to continue to write paintings.
Van Gogh"s passion for painting helped to transfer life in the hospital. Here he worked a lot, more than 150 works came to us and, probably, a couple of dozens of are lost. It turns out incredible productivity: one picture every two days.
"Star Night" is a symbol of the period that Van Gogh spent in the hospital. Three quarters of all time, he retained clarity of the mind and amazing performance. However, there was a series of crises when the master seemed to plunge into darkness and could not write at all. But every time he returned from the depths of despair. He came to the light, picking a brush in his hands again. “Star night” is a vivid testimony of the artist’s stubborn struggle with the difficulties of life.
For whom this book
For all fans of the work of Vincent Van Gogh.
About the author
Martin Bailey is a leading specialist in Van Gogh in the UK, a modern artist biographer, artist, London correspondent of The Art Newspaper. Bailey oversee several exhibitions about Van Gogh, including one in the National Gallery of British Art of Tate Britain in 2019, and wrote a lot about the artist. Among his books The Sunflowers are Mine (2013), Studio of the South (2016) and "Star Night" (2018)
Author:
Author:Bailey Martin
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Series:
Series: Myth. Culture
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-00146-220-0
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