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Vincent van Gogh : the drawings
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"A careful selection of more than one hundred works in charcoal, chalk, ink, graphite, and watercolor reveals the extraordinary range and brilliance of Vincent van Gogh's graphic oeuvre as it evolv...
"A careful selection of more than one hundred works in charcoal, chalk, ink, graphite, and watercolor reveals the extraordinary range and brilliance of Vincent van Gogh's graphic oeuvre as it evolved over the course of his decade-long career. A self-taught artist who believed that drawing was "the root of everything," Van Gogh succeeded, between 1881 and 1890, in developing an inimitable graphic style and, in the commanding works of his maturity, in fully realizing the expressive potential of line. The present study traces the artist's successive triumphs as a draftsman, first in the Netherlands and later in France, highlighting the diversity of his technical invention and the striking continuity of his vision. Given the pivotal role drawings played in his artistic conception and the rich dialectic they enjoyed with his oil paintings, a small selection of related canvases is featured."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Colta Ives [and others]
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Amsterdam : Van Gogh Museum ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
- ©2005
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- xii, 380 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 1588391647, 9781588391643, 1588391655, 9781588391650, 030010720X, 9780300107203
- OCLC
- ocm57731018
- Issued in connection with an exhibition held July 1-Sept. 18, 2005, at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and Oct. 12-Dec. 31, 2005, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-369) and indexes.
- Out of line : how Van Gogh made his mark / Colta Ives -- The paper trail : from portfolios to posterity / Susan Alyson Stein -- Metamorphoses : Van Gogh's drawings then and now / Sjraar van Heugten -- The Dutch years, 1880-85 / Sjraar van Heugten -- Antwerp and Paris, 1885-88 : the academy and the avant-garde / Sjraar van Heugten -- Arles, 1888-89 : the synthesis / Susan Alyson Stein -- First encounters / Susan Alyson Stein -- A visit to the sea / Colta Ives -- Summer harvest / Colta Ives -- Figure and portrait drawings / Susan Alyson Stein -- The heights of Montmojour / Colta Ives -- Gardens, parks, and byways / Colta Ives -- Repetitions : drawings after paintings / Susan Alyson Stein -- Drawing to a close / Susan Alyson Stein -- Saint-Remy, 1889-90 : taking asylum / Marije Vellekoop -- Auvers, 1890 : return to the north / Marije Vellekoop -- Infrared reflectography : the drawings under the drawings -- Technical studies : observations on the drawing materials used by Van Gogh in provence / Marjorie Shelley -- App. Summaries of scientific analyses of drawing materials / Silvia A. Centeno