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To Theo Van Gogh and Jo Van Gogh-Bonger. Auvers-Sur-Oise, on Or About Thursday, 10 July 1890 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Auvers-sur-Oise, on or about Thursday, 10 July 1890. on or about Thursday, 10 July 1890 Metadata Source status: Original manuscript Location: Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, inv. no. b697 V/1962 Date: Van Gogh looks back on his visit to Paris on Sunday, 6 July (see letter 897). Since then he has painted three large canvases (l. 36). Knowing that in Auvers he achieved the high level of production of around one canvas a day, we have dated the present letter to about Thursday, 10 July 1888. See also Hulsker 1998, p. 49. Additional: The earlier version of this letter, RM24, was never sent. Original [1r:1] Chers frre & soeur, la lettre de Jo a t pour moi rellement comme un vangile, une dlivrance dangoisse que mavaient cause les heures un peu difficiles & laborieuses pour nous tous que jai partages avec vous.1 Cest pas peu de chse lorsque tous ensemble nous sentons le pain quotidien en danger, pas peu de chse lorsque pour dautres causes que celle l aussi nous sentons notre existence fragile. 3 1 This letter from Jo van Gogh-Bonger2 is not known. 3 Vincent is referring here to his own fragile health, as well as the health problems of Theo and his family. 1 2 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Auvers-sur-Oise, on or about Thursday, 10 July 1890. Revenu ici4 je me suis senti moi aussi encore bien attrist et avais continu sentir peser sur moi aussi lorage qui vous menace. Quy faire voyez vous je cherche dhabitude tre de bonne humeur assez mais ma vie moi aussi est attaque la racine mme, mon pas aussi est chancelant. Jai craint pas tout fait mais un peu pourtant que je vous tais redoutable tant votre charge mais la lettre de Jo me prouve clairement que[1v:2] vous sentez bien que pour ma part je suis en travail et peine comme vous. L revenu ici je me suis remis au travail le pinceau pourtant me tombant presque des mains et sachant bien ce que je voulais jai encore depuis peint trois grandes toiles. Ce sont dimmenses tendues de bls sous des ciels troubls et je ne me suis pas gn pour chercher exprimer de la tristesse, de la solitude extrme.10 Vous verrez cela jespre sous peu car jespre vous les apporter Paris le plus tt possible puisque je croirais presque que ces toiles vous diront ce que je ne sais dire en paroles, ce que je vois de sain et de fortifiant dans la campagne. Maintenant la troisieme toile est le jardin de[1v:3] Daubigny, tableau que je mditais depuis que je suis 4 Vincent had visited Theo and Jo5 in Paris on Sunday, 6 July (see letter 897). Jo wrote in the introduction to her edition of the letters: In the first days of July, Vincent came again to see us in Paris; we were worn out by the child6s serious indisposition Theo had again conceived the plan to leave Goupil in order to start a business of his own, Vincent was not satisfied with the room the paintings are stored in, so we talked about moving to a larger apartment, so they were days of worry and tension. There were also constant visitors for Vincent, including Aurier7, who had written his famous article about Vincent shortly before this, and now looked at all the work again with the painter himself, and Toulouse-Lautrec8, who stayed to have lunch with us and had the biggest laugh with Vincent about an undertakers assistant, whom they met on the stairs. Guillaumin9 would also have come, but it was too much for Vincent, he didnt wait for his visit, and went back to Auvers in great haste; overfatigued and overwrought, as appears from his last letters and from his last paintings, in which one feels imminent disaster, coming closer like the black birds that race across the field in the storm (Brieven 1914, pp. lxii-lxiii). Vincents visit did not go smoothly. On 31 July 1890, Jo wrote to Theo: If only Id been a bit kinder to him when he was with us! and on 1 August: How sorry I was for being impatient with him the last time (FR b4245 and b2060; Brief happiness 1999, pp. 276-277). 10 Van Gogh later added de la solitude extrme (extreme loneliness). Judging by the description, the most likely possibilities are Wheatfield under troubled skies (F 778 / JH 2097) and Wheatfield with crows (F 779 / JH 2117); they are, moreover, the same format as the third canvas (see n. 5). Cf. also exhib. cat. New York 1986, pp. 275-276. To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Auvers-sur-Oise, on or about Thursday, 10 July 1890. 3 ici.11 Jespre de tout mon coeur que le voyage projet puisse vous procurer un peu de distraction. 13 Souvent je pense au petit, je crois que certes cest mieux dlever des enfants que de donner toute sa force nerveuse faire des tableaux mais que voulez vous, je suis moi maintenant, au moins me sens, trop vieux pour revenir sur des pas ou pour avoir envie dautre chse. Cette envie ma passe quoique la douleur morale men reste. Je regrette beaucoup de ne pas avoir revu Guillaumin mais cela me fait plaisir quil aie vu mes toiles. Si je lavais attendu jaurais probablement rest causer [1r:4] avec lui de faon perdre mon train. Vous soushaitant de la chance et bon courage et prosperit relative, je vous prie de dire une fois la mre et la soeur que je pense elles bien souvent, dailleurs jai ce matin une lettre delles et rpondrai sous peu. Poignes de main en pense. t. v. Vincent mon argent ne me durera pas bien longtemps cette fois ci, ayant mon retour eu payer les frais de bagages dArles.16 Je garde de ce voyage Paris de bien bons souvenirs. il y a quelques mois josais peu esperer revoir encore les amis. jai trouv bien du talent cette dame hollandaise. 18 Le tableau de Lautrec, portrait de musicienne, est bien etonnant, 11 Van Gogh painted two large canvases of Daubigny12s garden: Daubignys garden (F 776 / JH 2104) and Daubignys garden (F 777 / JH 2105). The one referred to here is the first version, F 777 / JH 2105. See exhib. cat. New York, pp. 284-285. 13 Theo, Jo14 and little Vincent15 left on 15 July for Leiden. Jo then travelled on to Amsterdam to stay with her family while she and the baby regained their strength. Theo was most likely in The Hague on 16 July. He then travelled via Antwerp to Brussels, returning to Paris on Friday evening, 18 July. He was planning to go again to the Netherlands and spend his holidays there with his family (see Brief happiness 1999, pp. 245-248, and letter 901). 16 Van Goghs furniture from Arles had been sent by the Ginouxs17 to Auvers (see letter 882). 18 The sculptor Elisabeth Sara Clasina de Swart19 (see Brieven 1914, vol. 3, p. 461). Vincent had met her on Sunday, 6 July. 4 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Auvers-sur-Oise, on or about Thursday, 10 July 1890. je lai vu avec motion. 20 Translation [1r:1] Dear brother and sister22, Jo23s letter was really like a gospel for me, a deliverance from anguish which I was caused by the rather difficult and laborious hours for us all that I shared with you.24 Its no small thing when all together we feel the daily bread in danger, no small thing when for other causes than that we also feel our existence to be fragile.26 Once back here27 I too still felt very saddened, and had continued to feel the storm that threatens you also weighing upon me. What can be done you see I usually try to be quite good- humoured, but my life, too, is attacked at the very root, my step also is faltering. I feared not completely but a little nonetheless that I was a danger to you, living at your expense but Jo33s [1v:2] letter clearly proves to me that you really feel that for my part I am working and suffering like you. There once back here I set to work again the brush however almost falling from my hands and knowing clearly what I wanted Ive painted another three large canvases since then. Theyre immense stretches of wheatfields under turbulent skies, and I made a point of trying to express sadness, extreme loneliness.34 Youll see this soon, I hope for I hope to bring them to you in Paris as soon as possible, since Id almost believe that these canvases will tell you what I cant say in words, what I consider healthy and fortifying about the countryside. [1v:3] Now the third canvas is Daubigny35s garden, a painting Id been thinking about ever since Ive been here.36 I hope with all my heart that the planned journey may provide you with a little distraction.38 20 For Toulouse-Lautrec21s Mademoiselle Dihau at the piano , about which Theo had written earlier, see letter 858, n. 8. Van Gogh must have seen it during his visit to Paris. His surprised reaction can perhaps be explained by the fact that he had painted the same subject a short while before in Marguerite Gachet at the piano (F 772 / JH 2048). 22 Johanna (Jo or Net) Gezina van Gogh-Bonger (1862-1925) wife of Theo van Gogh 23 Johanna (Jo or Net) Gezina van Gogh-Bonger (1862-1925) wife of Theo van Gogh 24 This letter from Jo van Gogh-Bonger25 is not known.
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