Product Description: This groundbreaking publication, a companion to Van Gogh at Work (see opposite), shows how the artist experimented with an enormous range of materials and techniques in his paintings and drawings. The result of an extensive research project carried out by the Van Gogh Museum, Shell, and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage, this book discusses the artist’s decisions to work with certain supports, priming layers, pigments, and inks, all of which had a profound effect on his final works...read more

Presents nineteen of the extant letters from Van Gogh to âEmile Bernard, written between 1887 and 1889, that illustrate Van Gogh's artistic struggles during the time, including paintings and drawings of other prominent artists.

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