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VANVAN GOGHGOGH
Author: Victoria Charles
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Victoria Charles
Vincent
van Gogh
Table of contents
Forward 7
Holland, England and Belgium: 1853-1886 15
Paris: 1886-1888 51
Arles: 1888-1889 87
Arles: 1889 123
Saint-Rémy: 1889-1890 141
Conclusion 183
Notes 190
Biography 192
Index 194
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e sat on that chair. His pipe lies on a reed seat next to an open o pouch. He slept
in that bed, lived in that house. It was there that he cut off a piece of his ear. We see him
H with a bandaged head, the pipe in the corner of his mouth, looking at us.
Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to see his pictures
without reading in them the story of his life: a life which has been described so many times that it
is by now the stuff of legend. Van Gogh is the incarnation of the suffering, a misunderstood martyr
of modern art and the emblem of the artist as an outsider.
In 1996, Jan Hulsker, the famous van Gogh scholar, published a corrected catalogue of the
complete works in which he questioned the authenticity of forty-five paintings and drawings.
What concerned Hulsker were not only the forgeries, but also canvases which were falsely
attributed to van Gogh. In a similar vein, the British art historian Martin Bailey claimed to have
recognized