

If you do buy the book from clicking our link to Amazon it will help support this site by giving us a small percentage of the sale. The price new ranges around $640.00 but used versions can be found for $450+ However, just because you want something doesn’t make it so, the free online version will keep us occupied while waiting for the right amount of “discretionary income” to fall into our laps!īut if you do decide to spring for the hard copy, please consider buying it from this Painting Perceptions’ link to If you’re like me and collect artbooks then you will seriously be considering wanting the physical book version, which has six volumes with a slipcase. The letters often show the evolutions of his ideas about painting, nature and literature. He also wrote letters to several other artists, such as Emile Bernard and Paul Gauguin. Most of the letters were written to his brother Theo, but Vincent also wrote to other family members, including his sister Wilhelmina. There are excellent search features that allow you to easily view the letters, artwork, notations, translations, etc by period, location and by correspondent. I recently discovered this incredible online resource, Vincent van Gogh, The Letters, put together by scholars from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the complete translated 902 letters of Van Gogh along with over 4,300 illustrations – every work to which Van Gogh refers is reproduced.
