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577 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 21 February 1888.
in translation:
... dealer whose shop I went into yesterday in this very street was telling me he knew of a Monticelli.
578 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 24 February 1888.
in translation:
...e way, we intended to acquire), 2, Reid made Monticellis go up in value, and since we own 5 of them t...
...d him to take part in a bigger deal than the Monticelli one, and he pretended not to understand very ...
... do as he thinks fit regarding the Marseille Monticellis. Making the point that dead painters are onl...
...ith towards us, all the more so since we’d have left him free regarding the Marseille Monticellis.
in note 7:
...tory, Vincent suggested leaving the trade in Monticellis in Marseille to him. He pursues the matter i...
in note 5:
... is referring to the following five works by Monticelli, which are mentioned in the correspondence: V...
in note 4:
Reid’s gift was probably Monticelli’s Vase of flowers (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 306. Van...
in note 3:
...vis de Chavannes and others, and, one of the few people to do so, Monticelli. See Fowle 2000, p. 93.
580 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 27 February 1888.
in note 5:
... Wouthuysen 1999, p. 27. Angus was Reid’s main competitor in the trade in Monticellis in Scotland.
589 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 25 March 1888.
in translation:
...ingness to make a purchase of a good quality Monticelli for his own collection. If you told him that ...
That Monticelli would sometimes take a bouquet of flowers in order to put on a single panel the whole...
...any case we think it’s much finer than the Monticellis with figures, which are all over the place t...
in note 4:
...n. 9 below) and Toulouse-Lautrec, and two by Monticelli. See exhib. cat. Amsterdam 1999, p. 81. On 18...
in note 3:
...vence in Paris. He was the leading dealer in Monticelli’s work. After his death in September 1886, ...
in note 1:
See for Monticelli’s Vase of flowers: letter 578, n. 4.
594 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 April 1888.
in translation:
...d gold, just like the little horseman in our Monticelli with the 3 figures in a wood. The bullring lo...
in note 7:
Adolphe Monticelli, Arabs and horseman, 1871 (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 305.
598 To John Peter Russell. Arles, Thursday, 19 April 1888.
in translation:
...because I found him artistic in pleading the Monticelli cause. In the which I took and take my part. ...
Surely Monticelli gives us not, neither pretends to give us, local colour or even local truth. But g...
in note 10:
See for Reid and Monticelli letter 578, n. 3.
600 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 20 April 1888.
in translation:
...ly doubtful about the truth of the legend of Monticelli’s absorbing huge quantities of absinthe. Wh...
in note 14:
... Delarebeyrette, who carried on the trade in Monticellis with her son Gabriel after her husband’s d...
Although Monticelli’s legendary consumption of alcohol sounds somewhat exaggerated, he must nonethe...
603 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 May 1888.
in translation:
Monticelli was physically more vigorous than I am, I think, and if I had the strength I would live li...
in note 3:
In the last years of his life Monticelli suffered a series of strokes that left him partially paralyz...
604 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 May 1888.
in translation:
...eased if that Bel-ami of the south — which Monticelli – wasn’t — but was preparing the ground...
610 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 14 May 1888.
in translation:
...hem. The other day I saw a subject just like Monticelli’s beautiful landscape with the poplars that...
in note 9:
We do not know which landscape with poplars by Monticelli Reid had.
623 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 12 June 1888.
in translation:
I’ve had reports of 2 Monticellis in Marseille, a bouquet of flowers at 250 francs and figures. It ...
625 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 15 and Saturday, 16 June 1888.
in note 11:
...a Parisian art dealer who dealt primarily in Monticelli’s work. See letter 600, n. 14, for the nick...
627 To John Peter Russell. Arles, on or about Sunday, 17 June 1888.
in translation:
...rentine sort of figure like the heads in the Monticelli pictures, and reasoning and drawing this wise...
Macknight told me he had seen a picture by Monticelli in Marseille, flower-piece.
634 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Thursday, 28 June 1888.
in translation:
...ll into a whole metaphysics of colours à la Monticelli, a mess from which it’s damned awkward to e...
635 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 1 July 1888.
in translation:
...there are few of them — on the other hand, Monticellis, Daumiers, Corots, Daubignys and Millets are...
...k very, very often of that excellent painter Monticelli, who people said was such a drinker and insan...
Which is no doubt not very virtuous, but it’s in order to go back to Monticelli.
...s all too crude a lie, this whole malicious, Jesuitical tale of the Roquette woman about Monticelli.
Monticelli the logical colourist, able to carry out the most ramified and subdivided calculations on ...
in note 6:
...larebeyrette. See letter 600, n. 14, on the nickname ‘La Roquette’ and Monticelli’s drinking.
636 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 5 July 1888.
in translation:
...as romantic, it couldn’t be more so, à la Monticelli, the sun was pouring its very yellow rays ove...
642 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in translation:
... Japanese prints what a sober Millet is to a Monticelli. You know well enough that I’m not averse t...
643 To Emile Bernard. Arles, between Tuesday, 17 and Friday, 20 July 1888.
in translation:
...nd by Cézanne; oh, no, no more than between Monticelli and me — but I too love the region that the...
657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
in translation:
...e north. It vibrates — like the bouquet by Monticelli that you have. I’m annoyed with myself for ...
...neration, Delacroix, Millet, Rousseau, Diaz, Monticelli, Isabey, Decamps, Dupré, Jongkind, Ziem, Isr...
It was in a grove of cypresses, and it was pure Monticelli.
in note 6:
See letter 578, n. 4, for Monticelli’s Vase of flowers.
663 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 18 August 1888.
in translation:
...uired sufficient taste for rough things, for Monticellis, for barbotine. Well, I know that one should...
670 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.
in translation:
What do you say about Monticelli’s bouquet of flowers that’s at Theo’s, and about Prévost’s ...
I myself think about Monticelli a great deal down here. He was a strong man — a little, even very, ...
...We’ll make quite a noise on that occasion. Monticelli is a painter who did the south all in yellow,...
... Marseillais or other who will remember what Monticelli once said and did. Has Theo shown you the bar...
in note 13:
For ‘barbotine’ (slip or liquid clay) and the association with Monticelli, see letter 663, n. 7.
in note 8:
... the accompanying article A. Meyer described Monticelli as follows: ‘I can still see him striding u...
in note 6:
For Monticelli’s last years see letter 603, n. 3.
in note 4:
See letter 578, n. 4, for Monticelli’s Vase of flowers.
683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in translation:
...as talked about suggestive colour. But Delacroix and Monticelli, while not talking about it, did it.
684 To Emile Bernard. Arles, between Wednesday, 19 and Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
in translation:
...ving gained the experience, is Delacroix and Monticelli, those painters who nowadays are wrongly said...
686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.
in translation:
...irty, black, &c. You can be sure that if the Monticellis had dried in Paris they’d now be very much...
...g now to see better the beauty of the women here, and so always, always I think again of Monticelli.
...t when leaving Paris that I would have found Monticelli and Delacroix so true. It’s only now, after...
...othing to do but to admire it. Because there Monticelli achieves a way of drawing that’s as rich an...
Isn’t it saddening that up to now Monticellis have never been reproduced in fine lithographs or vib...
in note 18:
We do not know which painting of lovers by Monticelli Reid had.
in note 17:
Monticelli, Woman with a parasol, undated (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 308. The work measures 5...
in note 16:
...llow woman’ Van Gogh could be referring to Monticelli’s Woman at the well (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Mu...
689 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 26 September 1888.
in translation:
...�m forced to lay the paint on thickly, à la Monticelli. Sometimes I really believe I’m continuing ...
699 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 8 October 1888.
in translation:
...r framing at the framer’s who did Reid’s Monticellis. Bague, I’m almost sure of it, would like ...
702 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 10 or Thursday, 11 October 1888.
in translation:
...e like this. (I notice that this cupboard has panels just like those on which Monticelli painted.)
I so often think of Monticelli, and when I reflect on what they say about his death it seems to me th...
One day I’ll perhaps know the details about those last days of Monticelli’s.
...e day Mrs de Larebey la Roquette said to me: Monticelli, now, Monticelli, but he was a man who should...
...ill be in keeping with that fine oeuvre by Monticelli, and we’ll try to prove to the good folk th...
in note 8:
See letter 600, n. 14, for Monticelli’s drinking.
in note 6:
Van Gogh must be referring to the panels Monticelli used for his paintings. With the exception of Ara...
703 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 13 October 1888.
in translation:
...n. The carriages are painted in the style of Monticelli, with impastos. You once had a very beautiful...
704 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 15 October 1888.
in translation:
... work, believing that the Marseille artists would do well to continue what their Monticelli started.
718 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 10 November 1888.
in translation:
I think you’ll be able to place this canvas next to Monticelli’s landscapes.
721 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 19 November 1888.
in note 7:
... he sees the possibilities of impasto, as in Monticelli, and I detest manipulated brushwork and so on...
722 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 21 November 1888.
in translation:
What do De Haan and Isaäcson say about Monticelli? Have they seen any of his paintings other than th...
in note 12:
Vincent had written to Theo about the continuation of Monticelli’s work in letters 689 and 702.
in note 11:
On the paintings by Monticelli owned by Theo and Vincent in 1888, see letter 578, n. 5.
735 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 9 January 1889.
in translation:
...o of us, and that we’re therefore simply continuing what Monticelli and Bruyas began in the south.
741 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 22 January 1889.
in translation:
...but not bad luck alone. If, for example, our Monticelli bouquet is worth 500 francs to an art lover, ...
in note 3:
For Monticelli’s Vase of flowers, see letter 578, n. 4.
743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.
in translation:
...you that really, truly, we’re following in Monticelli’s track here and, what’s more, that we ha...
765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
in translation:
...seille newspaper, because in it one glimpses Monticelli, and I find the description of the painting o...
776 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 23 May 1889.
in note 20:
For Monticelli’s last years, see letter 603, n. 3.
in translation:
...apestry flecked in the manner of a Diaz or a Monticelli, red-brown, pink, creamy white, black, forget...
...n, Troyon, Marchal, Meryon, Jundt, M. Maris, Monticelli, a host of others, had ended up like that. I ...
783 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 25 June 1889.
in translation:
...gives firmness to the ground. I believe that Monticellis were very often prepared in this way. One th...
...imate note, for the light is mysterious, and Monticelli and Delacroix felt that. Then Pissarro used t...
784 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
in translation:
... plaid. This one, which is impasted like the Monticellis, and the wheatfield with the sun that repres...
790 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 14 or Monday, 15 July 1889.
in translation:
The doctor was telling me about Monticelli, that he had always considered him eccentric, but as for m...
in note 6:
...eye doctor in Marseille; he might have known Monticelli personally, since the artist lived there. For...
808 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 5 October 1889.
in translation:
... I think that you’ll see that I’ve found Monticelli’s track. You’ll have received the consign...
...y with an intelligent, pure-bred face, in a red dress. A figure like the ones Monticelli thought of.
810 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 8 October 1889.
in translation:
... little. You remember that fine landscape by Monticelli that we saw at Delarebeyrette’s, of a tree ...
in note 16:
It is not known which work by Monticelli is referred to here.
825 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 8 December 1889.
in translation:
...to say that a book should be published about Monticelli. Well, I’ve seen about twenty very fine lit...
in note 7:
... by Auguste Lauzet after twenty paintings by Monticelli, as well as two portraits of the artist, a �...
829 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 19 December 1889.
in translation:
...ation of coloured lithographs with a text on Monticelli, honestly, that gives me very great pleasure,...
in note 3:
For Monticelli’s Vase of flowers, see letter 578, n. 4. Lauzet’s publication did not include a li...
830 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 22 December 1889.
in translation:
...leasure. I was visited at home by Mr Lauzet, Monticelli’s lithographer. He came to see ours, and co...
...’t realize the strength of the colour that Monticelli was one of the first to employ by using an op...
in note 10:
...tte. The gallery they ran together sold many Monticellis. For the nickname ‘La Roquette’, see let...
in note 7:
Adolphe Monticelli, Italian girl, c. 1879 (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 2302.
in note 6:
For Monticelli’s Vase of flowers, see letter 578, n. 4.
in note 5:
Vincent and Theo owned five works by Monticelli; see letter 578, n. 5.
843 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 22 January 1890.
in translation:
... him that I have another subscription to his Monticelli work, Artist’s proofs, that will please him...
853 To Albert Aurier. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 or Monday, 10 February 1890.
in translation:
...to others rather than to me. For example, to Monticelli above all. Speaking of ‘he is – as far as...
... colour, you had done justice to Gauguin and Monticelli before talking about me. For the share that f...
in note 8:
Diaz and Ziem were Monticelli’s teachers. He received lessons from Ziem as an incipient artist in M...
in note 5:
...-Arts in Lille had acquired two paintings by Monticelli: Landscape with fence and Scene from the Deca...
in note 4:
Monticelli did not receive recognition in France until well after his death in 1886, but in England a...
in note 3:
For Monticelli’s Vase of flowers, see letter 578, n. 4.
854 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 12 February 1890.
in translation:
...��s in terribly thick impasto and worked like certain Monticellis, I’ve kept it for almost a year.
...g a kind of tonal music with colour, as some Monticellis are. But the truth is so dear to me, trying ...
856 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.
in translation:
...o him that in any event it seemed to me that Monticelli and Gauguin were rather like that, that it th...
888 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 15 June 1890.
in translation:
...ee your paintings, he’s very busy with his Monticellis, which are going to be published in ten days...
889 To Theo van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, Tuesday, 17 June 1890.
in translation:
... in some way it forms a sequel to the Lauzet-Monticelli publication, if you approve. And Gauguin will...
RM23 To Paul Gauguin, Auvers-sur-Oise, on or about Tuesday, 17 June 1890.
in translation:
...s that Lauzet, who’s doing the lithographs after Monticelli, liked that head of the Arlésienne.

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3 essay items found

About this edition / The transcriptions
in about_2:
...the question of colour) and that Gauguin and Monticelli had been much more important in this regard. ...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
in letter_writer_2:
...orges Michel as a landscapist, Delacroix and Monticelli as colourists, and Japanese printmakers for t...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
in letter_writer_4:
...that of someone he admired in the passage on Monticelli in letter 635, where Van Gogh’s remedy for ...

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Documentation
in documentation:
... but not all. Vincent calls himself Monticelli’s follower and Montice...

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52 letters, 3 essay items and 1 other item found

52 letters found

3 essay items found

1 other item found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters