Illustrations

All drawings and paintings are by Vincent van Gogh unless otherwise stated.

Black-and-white illustrations

Arles seen from the Wheatfields, late July 1888 (© akg-images/CDA/Guillemot)

Cutting from Le Forum Républicain newspaper, 30 December 1888 (© Médiathèque Municipale de la ville d’Arles)

Arles from the air, photo taken at 9.55 a.m. on 25 June 1944 by 455th Bomb Group, US Air Force (© Air Force Historical Research Agency, AFB, Maxwell Alabama)

The Yellow House, 2, place Lamartine, Arles, 25 June 1944 (© Musée de la Camargue)

Aerial reconnaissance photo, Arles, 1919 (© Photothèque, l’Institut National de l’Information Géographique et Forestière)

Vincent van Gogh, 1871 (© akg-images)

Theo van Gogh, c.1889 (© akg-images)

The Yellow House, 2, place Lamartine, Gustave Coquiot, 1922

Vincent van Gogh on his deathbed, Dr Paul Gachet, 29 July 1890 (© Bridgeman Images)

Tiled roof with chimney and church tower, Arles, 1888 (© Private Collection)

Map of Arles, drawn up by Auguste Véran, 1867 (© Médiathèque d’Arles)

Arlésiennes in traditional dress, c.1909 (© Private Collection)

Postcard of the place du Forum, c.1910

Sketch of the Yellow House in Letter 602, Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, 1 May 1888 (© Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Photograph of Paul Gauguin in his studio on rue Vandamme, 1891 (modern print © Musée Maurice Denis, Saint-Germain-en-Laye)

Public garden and pond in front of the Yellow House, late April 1888 (© akg-images)

La Mousmé, Arles, late July 1888 (© Private Collection)

Letter 706, Vincent van Gogh to Paul Gauguin, 17 October 1888 (© Pierpont Morgan Library, New York)

Paul Gauguin’s list of words in his sketchbook, pp. 220–1 (© The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)

‘Mystère’, drawing in Paul Gauguin’s sketchbook, p. 171, c.24 December 1888 (© The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)

Joseph d’Ornano, drawings in Paul Gauguin’s sketchbook, pp. 22–3, 24 December 1888 (© The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)

Illustration of Vincent van Gogh’s ear from the article ‘Vincent van Gogh et le drame de l’oreille coupée’, Edgar Leroy and Victor Doiteau, 1936, Aesculape, Paris (© Leroy family)

Signature of Dr Félix Rey on the prescription form, 1930; signature of Dr Félix Rey on a medical report, 1912 (© Archives Communales d’Arles)

Vincent van Gogh’s ear, Dr Félix Rey, drawn for Irving Stone, 18 August 1930 (© Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)

Reverend Frédéric Salles, c.1890 (© Private Collection)

Photograph of the cabanon at Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Esprit, Arles, 1955

‘Bandaging a head wound’, Sir William Watson Cheyne, Antiseptic Surgery: Its Principles, Practice, History and Results (Smith, Elder and Co., London: 1882) (© The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh)

The Arles petition, late February 1889 (© Archives Communales d’Arles)

Signature of Joseph Marie Ginoux from the Police Enquiry; signature of Joseph Marie Ginoux from his marriage certificate; signature of Joseph Gion, Arles Petition, late February 1889 (1866 Marriage registers, Pétition Documentation © Archives Communales d’Arles)

Illustration of spiral nebulae, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Royal Society Publications, London: 1861) (© The Royal Society)

Chair and sketch of a hand, Saint-Rémy, March–April 1890 (© Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

The Sower, Arles, August 1889 (© akg-images)

Colour illustrations

The Yellow House (The Street), Arles, September 1888 (© Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam/Bridgeman Images)

Marie Ginoux (The Arlésienne), Arles, 1888 or 1889 (© Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Bridgeman Images)

Joseph Roulin, Arles, spring 1889 (© The Barnes Foundation, Merion)

Félix Rey, Arles, January 1889 (© Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)

Patience Escalier (The Peasant), Arles, August 1888 (© Private Collection)

The Night Café, September 1888 (© Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut)

Les Alyscamps (Leaf Fall), Arles, late October 1888 (© Kröller–Müller Museum, Otterlo)

Orchard in Blossom with a View of Arles, April 1889 (© Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam/akg-images)

Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Arles, May–June 1888 (© akg-images)

Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les Misérables), Pont-Aven, Paul Gauguin, September 1888 (© Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam/Bridgeman Images)

Vincent van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, Arles, Paul Gauguin, late November–early December 1888 (© Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam/Bridgeman Images)

Arlésiennes (Mistral), Arles, Paul Gauguin, December 1888 (© Art Institute of Chicago/Mr and Mrs Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection/Bridgeman Images)

The Brothel, Arles, November 1888 (© The Barnes Foundation, Merion)

Augustine Roulin (La Berceuse), Arles, January 1889 (© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Bequest of John T. Spaulding/Bridgeman Images)

La Vie Passionnée de Vincent van Gogh, the Lust for Life film poster in France, director Vincente Minnelli, MGM, 1956 (© Bridgeman Images)

Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, Arles, 1889 (© Private Collection)

Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear, Arles, 1889 (© The Courtauld Gallery, London)

Ward in the Hospital in Arles, Arles, April 1889 (© Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, ‘Am Roemerholz’, Winterthur)

The Courtyard of the Hospital in Arles, 1889 (© Oskar Reinhart Collection, ‘Am Roemerholz’, Winterthur)

Still Life with Drawing Board, Pipe, Onions and Sealing-Wax, Arles, January 1889 (© Kröller–Müller Museum, Otterlo)

Self-Portrait: Ceramic Jug with Severed Head, Paul Gauguin, 1889 (© Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen)

Starry Night, Saint-Rémy, June 1889 (© Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Charles-Elézard Trabuc, an attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital, Saint-Rémy, 1889 (© Kunstmuseum, Solothurn)

Old Man in Sorrow (On the Threshold of Eternity), Saint-Rémy, May 1890 (© Kröller–Müller Museum, Otterlo)

Almond Blossom, Saint-Rémy, February 1890 © Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam/Bridgeman Images)