![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There have been a number of previous editions of the letters, including one assembled by the artist's sister-in-law, Jo, which appeared in 1914 the first scholarly edition by art critic Douglas Cooper in 1938 and the standard collection, gathered by the painter's nephew, Vincent Willem van Gogh, and published between 19. The Letters is the culmination of a 15-year project undertaken by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In these volumes, the arc of Van Gogh's life as traced in the letters is supported on a complex sub-structure of pictorial examples – every single work mentioned in the correspondence, from the merest sketch to finished masterpieces, is identified and reproduced – and the result is a deeply affecting insight into the mind of one of the strangest and yet best-loved painters of the early Modernist period. Through six large volumes of more than 900 letters, meticulously annotated and accompanied by a wealth of illustrations, we are allowed to follow the painter's progress through a long and at times painful apprenticeship to ultimate artistic triumph. T his magnificent new edition of the complete Van Gogh letters is a celebration not only of a great artist but of art itself. ![]()
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