30 letters found
- 494 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 18 April 1885.
- in note 3:
Theo, who had shown the art dealer Alphonse Portier the sketch The potato eaters (F 1226 / JH 736), t...
- in translation:
What you write to me about Mr Portier certainly pleased me greatly, but the question is whether he st...
...rm of painting. And could perhaps be one that Portier could show or that we could send to an exhibit...
- 495 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 21 April 1885.
- in translation:
Do give Mr Portieras many of them as he might want. And I enclose herewith a letter to him, which wil...
What I want to assure Portier of in this letter is my — faith — precisely in Eugène Delacroix an...
- 496 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 28 April 1885.
- in translation:
I’m very curious as to what Portier will say about it when it’s finished.
But you know I wrote to Mr Portier — up till now I’ve made nothing but studies — but — the pa...
- 497 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 30 April 1885.
- in note 5:
Portier knew the drawing The potato eaters (F 1226 / JH 736) and the lithograph The potato eaters (F ...
- in translation:
Now, though, I have something to say about Portier — of course his private opinion isn’t at all a...
... — I hope so. I’m glad that now, just as Mr Portier has said he wants to handle my work, I for my...
...e abandoned. But still — I understand that Mr Portier, for instance, must be confirmed in what he s...
- 499 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 2 May 1885.
- in translation:
...of the drawings. And I would even prefer that Portier didn’t exaggerate in finding them good (at l...
I think that Portier will understand it. It’s very dark, though, and in the white, for instance, wh...
...ith the painting. Obviously we must make sure Portier gets something new. But I could just as well p...
- 500 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 May 1885.
- in translation:
Naturally I don’t know what Portier will say.
- 502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.
- in translation:
...more with it there if possible. I’m longing to hear whether Mr Portier has seen the potato eaters.
- 505 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 28 May 1885.
- in note 5:
Portier had meanwhile seen the work, but remarkably Theo had not yet written to tell Vincent about it...
- in translation:
What did Portier say about the potato eaters? I know myself that there are flaws in it; all the same,...
... now for Antwerp or that I send it to you and Portier as soon as possible. Because it’s all the sa...
- 506 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 2 June 1885.
- in translation:
...ut the painting, the comments that they made, Portier and Serret, but that they still found good thi...
Now as to what you write about Portier, ‘he is perhaps more of an enthusiast than a salesman’, an...
- 507 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 9 June 1885.
- in translation:
I’d like you to give both the paintings a varnish before you show them to Portier or Serret.
I’m glad that this time I can show Portier something very different again. I’m busy drawing, by t...
- 512 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 6 July 1885.
- in note 1:
...xhibition ran from 15 March to 15 April 1884; Portier was responsible for organizing it. One of the ...
- 515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
- in translation:
Whether Portier is or isn’t the man to do something with my work — we need him now all the same. ...
... working over it. By sending it to you and to Portier as it comes from the countryside or from the c...
- 527 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 17 August 1885.
- in translation:
Just a word about Serret and about Portier. Tell them as it is, that is that I did have studies ready...
...d be your final word. Talk to Serret, talk to Portier about it — and say how much I want to keep w...
- 529 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 19 August 1885.
- in translation:
...ain I suggest that you just talk it over with Portier and Serret, say that I’m in quite a fix, enc...
- 532 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Friday, 25 and about Tuesday, 29 September 1885.
- in translation:
...ifically in connection with modelling with different colours, and I would like Portier to see them.
- 534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
- in note 30:
...eactions of people to whom Theo had showed Vincent’s work in Paris, among them Portier and Serret.
- 538 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 3 or Wednesday, 4 November 1885.
- in note 6:
The people to whom Theo showed Vincent’s work, including Portier and Serret.
- 546 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Sunday, 6 December 1885.
- in note 13:
...become clear that the Parisian art dealer Alphonse Portier’s initial enthusiasm for Van Gogh’s wo...
- in translation:
...ng to have doubts precisely because I noticed that Portier seemingly doesn’t care for it any more.
- 548 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 17 December 1885.
- in translation:
I really can’t understand why Portier, having expressed himself so clearly about my work — has si...
...hat I can’t understand is that someone like Portier, say, like Serret — if they can’t sell —...
- 550 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Monday, 28 December 1885.
- in note 8:
Portier was only 44 in 1885; it may be that Van Gogh was confusing him with Durand-Ruel – born in 1...
- in note 7:
In 1879 Alphonse Portier was the gérant (organizer) of the Impressionists’ fourth group exhibition...
- in translation:
As to Portier — I’m not abandoning hope yet — but poverty is snapping at my heels and at the mo...
And as to Portier — you told me yourself that he began the first of the exhibitions of the Impressi...
- 569 To Horace Mann Livens, Paris, September or October 1886.
- in note 12:
...was; it may have been the courtier dealer Alphonse Portier, who lived in the same building as Theo an...
- 571 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, between about Sunday, 17 and Tuesday, 19 July 1887.
- in note 9:
...ng Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec sold through Alphonse Portier. At that time Julius Elias was in any even...
- in translation:
I saw Lautrec today, he’s sold a painting, through Portier, I think.
- 584 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 10 March 1888.
- in translation:
... comes off, and that you and Tersteeg become the society’s expert members (with Portier perhaps?).
- 610 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 14 May 1888.
- in note 8:
Van Gogh had seen landscapes by Cézanne at Portier’s (see letter 624) and no doubt also at Tanguyâ...
- 624 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 12 or Wednesday, 13 June 1888.
- in note 7:
Aside from The harvest referred to in n. 6, Portier is known to have had one other painting by Cézan...
- in note 6:
...ll. 686. Vincent and Theo saw the painting in Portier’s gallery at 54 rue Lepic. According to Rewa...
- in translation:
...kills the rest. When I think that in the past Portier used to say that the Cézannes that he’d had...
- 638 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 July 1888.
- in translation:
...iliar with Desboutin’s little portrait that Portier has. It’s certainly a strange phenomenon tha...
- 663 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 18 August 1888.
- in note 2:
...e same name F 443 / JH 1548. The criticism of Portier must have been prompted in part by his cool at...
- in translation:
...my way of doing things, which was fertilized more by the ideas of Delacroix than by theirs. Portier
- 741 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 22 January 1889.
- in note 6:
This refers to Theo’s downstairs neighbour, the art dealer Alphonse Portier.
- 825 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 8 December 1889.
- in translation:
...ng by Manet, which perhaps you saw earlier at Portier’s. It shows a young woman in a white dress s...
- 829 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 19 December 1889.
- in note 13:
...ten about Manet’s In the garden, which the brothers had seen at Portier’s. See letter 825, n. 2.
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- Correspondents / Preservation of the letters
- in correspondents_4:
...eo in April 1885 for the Paris art dealer Alphonse Portier. He wrote to the painter Charles-Emmanuel ...
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- Overview of all the letters
- in overview:
Alphonse Portier, art dealer in Paris
- Chronology
- in 1886:
... Thomas, and of a fourth dealer, possibly Alphonse Portier (569, 718). Sells at least one painting to...
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29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
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Alphonse Portier (1841-1902) art dealer in Paris
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