The letters van gogh5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() 3 Building on this research to show letters and pictures side by side, this exhibition now partly dispels, and partly revels in the remnants of the “van Gogh legend”. Last year, after 15 years of research, scholars at the Van Gogh Museum published by far the most comprehensive and carefully annotated set of the letters to date. 2 The letters – sent throughout his lifetime, kept by his brother Theo and first published in 1914 by Theo’s widow – are allegedly the bridge between these pillars. ![]() 1 As is admitted in the exhibition catalogue this fame now rests on the “twin pillars” of his work and the myth that surrounds him. ![]() The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Lettersīy SAM ROSE Van Gogh is almost unique in his fame: not just the epitome of the modern-artist-as-tragic-hero, but perhaps even the origin of the whole paradigm. ![]()
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