Vincent van Gogh was a groundbreaking painter and a prodigious writer of letters. His surviving correspondence reflects his passionate life. The letters tell the story of Van Gogh's quest for his destiny, a search that led him to become an artist; of the great bond with his brother Theo, the only one who always believed in him: of his sometimes painful friendships and his yearning for recognition; and of his love for art and literature. Behind this fascinating story there is another: that of the letters themselves. More than one hundred and thirty years old and often containing wonderful sketches, the original documents most of them now in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam - unite the artist and the letter-writer

ISBN: 9789079310845