Hardcover with dustjacket, number of pages : 192, dimensions: 29 x 24 cm. with 166 full colour illustrations. ISBN 9789061537175. Known the world over, Vincent Van Gogh continues to exert a compelling fascination. This book exploring the artist's paintings has been devised as a companion to the well-received Van Gogh draughtsman : the Masterpieces by Sjraar van Heugten. It offers the reader a selection of the artist's most unforgettable canvases, as well as some lesser-known examples, drawn from the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and elsewhere. It explores the works in the context of Van Gogh's short but brillant career, in which frequent spells of isolation did not preclude lively engagement with artistic peers and the ideas of his time. Van Goghs brush was guided by a remarkable intelligence, restless and wide-raging intelligence, which found its other outlet in the continuous stream of letters penned to family and friends. One of the most important archival resources of nineteenth-century art, the artist's correspondence provides the narrative thread around which this study develops. The author considers Van Gogh as a cosmopolitan figure who combined in his art the experiences and traditions he absorbed in his native Holland and in Belgium, and who then succeeded in assimilating and making his mark upon the practice of painting in France at one of the richest periods in the history of art. 1600 g. Codice articolo 23613
Titolo: VAN GOGH PAINTER. THE MASTERPIECES.
Casa editrice: Amsterdam/Brussels Van Gogh Museum/Mercatorfonds 2007
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione sovraccoperta: Dust Jacket Included
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Book in fine condition Wrapper in near fine condition. Negligible creasing along top edge Heavy book which will cost extra to post outside UK. Codice articolo ABE-1470053927080