10 letters found

1. 657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.

   in translation:

   ... in shadow cast by the fig trees and reeds. If Quost was there, or Jeannin.... What can you say, to ...

   in note 12:

   Ernest Quost was known for his paintings of flower gardens, and Georges Jeannin for his flower still ...

2. 739 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Monday, 21 January 1889.

   in translation:

   ...ade a bad choice – if Jeannin has the peony, Quost the hollyhock, I indeed, before others, have ta...

3. 741 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 22 January 1889.

   in translation:

   You know that Jeannin has the peony, Quost has the hollyhock, but I have the sunflower, in a way. And...

4. 768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.

   in translation:

   ... present-day equivalents? Why are Daubigny and Quost and Jeannin not colourists for example? So many...

5. 850 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 1 February 1890.

   in translation:

   ...reason, what he says about my sunflowers about Quost’s magnificent and so-complete Hollyhocks and ...

   in note 7:

   Quost made many paintings of hollyhocks, including Garden with hollyhock (see letter 891, n. 15). It ...

6. 853 To Albert Aurier. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 or Monday, 10 February 1890.

   in translation:

   ...ople do not yet sufficiently appreciate, père Quost’s Hollyhocks, Yellow Irises? The magnificent ...

   in note 16:

   With regard to Quost and Jeannin, cf. letter 850, nn. 7 and 8.

7. 866 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 2 May 1890.

   in translation:

   ...itan. I think from a note in Le Figaro that père Quost must have a darned good painting in the Salo...

   in note 10:

   ... 1890), 3rd series, pp. 1-3, about the work of Quost: ‘Mr Quost paints flowers with virtuosity, in...

8. 890 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 23 June 1890.

   in translation:

   ...oring. You, though, judged well as regards the Quost. If I had to choose one that’s the one I’d ...

   I saw Quost the other day and I spoke to him about you. I was telling him that you liked his talent v...

   in note 5:

   Quost lived at 74 rue de Rochechouart in Paris; the ‘park’ must refer to one of the parks where h...

   in note 3:

   For Ernest Quost, Easter flowers, see letter 866, n. 10.

9. 891 To Theo van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, Tuesday, 24 June 1890.

   in translation:

   ...little later, precisely in order to go and see Quost once, to see Jeannin, one or two others. I’d ...

   in note 15:

   ... exchange probably never took place. The estate does, however, contain a landscape drawing by Quost.

10. 894 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 30 June and Tuesday, 1 July 1890.

    in translation:

    ...ch by that, for we’ll go together to see the Quost, which decidedly is a fine painting. We’ll go...

    in note 7:

    For Quost’s Easter flowers, see letter 866, n. 10. Theo’s plan to exhibit it was probably never r...

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