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

This is a very useful book. If you are interested only in the reproductions (good drawings as well as paintings), you will enjoy their high quality--and the breadth of Vincent's work that they cover. If you are interested in primary resources about van Gogh's life--newspaper articles; letters and reminiscences from friends, fellow artists, relatives--this volume is a real treasure. Between the excellent reproductions and the extraordinarily fine collection of biographical materials, this must be the best one-volume source on van Gogh. A great shame that it is out of print. Get one NOW!

Great Masters of Art: Van Gogh: A Retrospective

History & Criticism

Random House Value Publishing

Splendid Legacy : The Havemeyer Collection

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney

Gary Tinterow

Gretchen Wold

and Julia Meech

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Book by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Gary Tinterow, Susan Alyson Stein, Gretchen Wold, Julia Meech

Splendid Legacy. The Havemeyer Collection

Reference

Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen

Julia Meech

Catalogs & Directories

Paul Signac, 1863-1935

Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon, Anne Distel, John Leighton, Susan Alyson Stein

Anne Distel

Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon

John Leighton

Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale

Van gogh : un peintre, une vie, une oeuvre

BELFOND

Van Gogh 1853-1890

Köln: Könemann Verlag

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