Van Gogh en de familie Roulin (Van Gogh Museum)
Nienke Bakker, Katie Hanson (Eds.)
Uitgeverij Tijdsbeeld, 2025
€29,95
“What fascinates me most, far, far more than anything else, in my profession—that is the portrait, the modern portrait,” wrote Vincent van Gogh in June 1890. In 1888 and 1889, Van Gogh devoted himself to a series of portraits of a single family from Arles, France: the Roulins. Postmaster Joseph Roulin, his wife Augustine, and their three children inspired Van Gogh to create an impressive series of twenty-three painted portraits, plus three drawings.
Van Gogh and the Roulin Family offers the first in-depth exploration of this portrait series, in which Van Gogh sought to express something of “the thought, the soul of the sitter” and, simultaneously, of human existence in general. Based on the artist’s letters, archival material, and contemporary art criticism, insightful essays explore various topics, including Van Gogh’s working methods, his views on portraiture, his friendship with Joseph Roulin, and his admiration for both his contemporaries and 17th-century Dutch portrait painters. IN DUTCH ONLY!
ISBN: 9789490880514
