BONAFOUX Pascal.
Van Gogh - Portraits and Self-Portraits.
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| N° d'inventaire | 29819 |
| Format | 23 x 26.5 |
| Détails | 216 p., numerous color photographs, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782021533859 |
Vincent van Gogh's correspondence leaves no doubt: from 1873, when he was twenty years old, portraiture fascinated him. Even before he decided to become a painter, his numerous visits to museums in the Netherlands, England, and Paris convinced him of the importance of portraiture, whether painted or photographic. Painting portraits to measure up to his ancestors would thus become the greatest challenge he would have to face.
But if Rembrandt painted for the bourgeoisie of Amsterdam, and if, in the 19th century, portraiture continued to be the business of "distinguished" figures, Vincent only took as models anonymous men and women who belonged to what he said was the third estate, men and women of whom no one ever cared to know who they were. In this work, Pascal Bonafoux highlights this long, patient, difficult and stubborn artistic quest, through the places where Vincent stayed, from the darkness of northern Europe, through the brilliant light of Arles, to his final destination, in Auvers-sur-Oise.
He thus brings back to life one of the greatest artists of all time.
But if Rembrandt painted for the bourgeoisie of Amsterdam, and if, in the 19th century, portraiture continued to be the business of "distinguished" figures, Vincent only took as models anonymous men and women who belonged to what he said was the third estate, men and women of whom no one ever cared to know who they were. In this work, Pascal Bonafoux highlights this long, patient, difficult and stubborn artistic quest, through the places where Vincent stayed, from the darkness of northern Europe, through the brilliant light of Arles, to his final destination, in Auvers-sur-Oise.
He thus brings back to life one of the greatest artists of all time.
But if Rembrandt painted for the bourgeoisie of Amsterdam, and if, in the 19th century, portraiture continued to be the business of "distinguished" figures, Vincent only took as models anonymous men and women who belonged to what he said was the third estate, men and women of whom no one ever cared to know who they were. In this work, Pascal Bonafoux highlights this long, patient, difficult and stubborn artistic quest, through the places where Vincent stayed, from the darkness of northern Europe, through the brilliant light of Arles, to his final destination, in Auvers-sur-Oise.
He thus brings back to life one of the greatest artists of all time.