Vincent van Gogh (18531890) believed that drawing was the root of everything.” A self-taught artist, he succeeded, between 1881 and 1890, in developing an inimitable graphic style. This book traces the artist’s successive triumphs as a draftsman, first in the Netherlands and later in France, highlighting the diversity of his technical invention and the striking continuity of his vision. Given the pivotal role drawings played in Van Gogh’s artistic conception and the rich dialectic they enjoyed with his oil paintings, a small selection of related canvases by the artist is also featured.This beautiful book presents approximately 120 works in charcoal, ink, graphite, watercolor, and diluted oils. The authors explore enduring questions that surround Van Gogh’s drawings, including their manufacture, artistic precedents, and contribution to Modernism. In addition, the text discusses the significance of the artist’s drawing practice to his development as a painter. The essays and entries feature the most current research on Van Gogh’s drawings and provide fresh interpretations of the motivating influences that shaped the artist’s contributions to the history of drawing.

Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Arts & Photography

Sjraar Van Heugten

Susan Alyson Stein

Ives, Colta

Marije Vellekoop

Individual Artists

Metropolitan Museum of Art

There are few western artists who left such a comprehensive record of their likes and dislikes in art as Vincent van Gogh. Through his correspondence, it has been possible to identify the works he was most familiar with, and those he most admired. This book, which accompanies an important exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, marking the 150Ýsuperscript th¨ anniversary of the artist's birth, brings together the paintings that had the greatest influence on Van Gogh - by such masters as Rembrandt and Rubens, Corot and Courbet, Monet and Gauguin - with dozens of his own works. By juxtaposing these other artists' works with many of Vincent's most powerful and best-loved paintings, the exhibition reveals a fascinating dialogue between one artistic genius and his art historical predecessors. Ten lavishly illustrated essays by Van Gogh specialists cover a wide range of subjects, from the artist's attitude toward "the people" to his relationship with literature. Exploring the full panoply of Vincent's visual passions, Van Gogh's Imaginary Museum demonstrates not only the resonance between Vincent's taste and his own art but also the workings of the artistic mind and imagination in general.

Van Gogh's Imaginary Museum: Exploring the Artist's Inner World

Chris Stolwijk

Leo Jansen

History & Criticism

Harry N. Abrams

Both volumes are in publisher's original cloth and in an illustrated paper covered slipcase.

Vincent Van Gogh (Volume 1: Drawings / Volume 2: Paintings)

Ronald Pickvance

Johannes van der Wolk

E.B.F. Pey

Evert van Uitert

Louis van Tilborgh

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Rizzoli

The third volume in the series of Vincent Van Gogh drawings in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam presents a detailed examination of the body of illustrative work the artist made during his three-year stay in Antwerp and Paris. Reflecting the most up-to-date research, the catalogue reproduces over one hundred drawings and discusses their technique, subject, exhibition history and provenance.

Vincent Van Gogh Drawings; vol. 3: Antwerp and Paris, 1885-1888

Lund Humphries

Le Choix De Vincent : Le Musée imaginaire De Van Gogh

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam / Fonds Mercator

Van Gogh: Heartfelt Lines

Dumont Buchverlag

Van Gogh & Co (Kroller-Muller: 25/04/2015 - 27/09/2015)

Eva Rovers

Roy Bicknell

Liz Kreijn

Stichting Kroller-Mull

Stichting Kroller-Muller Museum

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