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Index
About the Book
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Prologue: London
1. L’ange aux poupons;
2. Goupil and Company
3. In its own image love creates love
4. “Let’s forget it, shall we?”
5. The Van Goghs
6. “Why, you’re nothing but a country boor!”
7. Ramsgate and Isleworth
I: The Borinage
1. Amsterdam
2. Kay
3. A stuffy, provincial clergyman
4. Latin and Greek
5. Mendes da Costa
6. Where lies the greater strength?
7. Evangelical school
8. The Blackjaw
9. A miner’s hat
10. Success!
11. Terril:
12. Marcasse
13. A lesson in economics
14. Fragile
15. Black Egypt
16. Exit God
17. Bankruptcy
18. An incident of little importance
19. As one artist to another
20. Enter Theo
21. The old mill at Ryswyk.
II: Etten
1. “There’s a living in that!”
2. Fou
3. The student
4. Mijnheer Tersteeg
5. Anton Mauve
6. Kay comes to Etten
7. “No, never, never!”
8. There are some cities in which a man is forever ill-fated.
III: The Hague
1. The first studio
2. Christine
3. Work in progress
4. A man needs a woman
5. “You must hurry and begin to sell!”
6. Goodness grows in curious places
7. Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre
8. The merciless sword
9. Love
10. The Holy Family
11. Theo comes to The Hague
12. Fathers are funny
13. L’art, c’est un combat;
14. —And so is marriage.
IV: Nuenen
1. A studio in the vicarage
2. The weavers
3. Margot
4. “It’s loving that’s important, not being loved”
5. Whither thou goest
6. Inquisition
7. “Your work is almost salable, but . . .”
8. The Potato Eaters.
V: Paris
1. “Ah, yes, Paris!”
2. The explosion
3. “Why should anyone want to be a count when he can be a painter?”
4. Portrait of a primitive
5. Painting must become a science!
6. Rousseau gives a party
7. A poor wretch who hanged himself
8. Art goes amoral
9. Père Tanguy
10. The Petit Boulevard
11. Art for the workingman
12. The Communist Art Colony
13. Southward, ever southward to the sun!
VI: Arles
1. Earthquake or revolution?
2. The painting machine
3. Le Pigeon
4. Postman
5. The Yellow House
6. Maya
7. Gauguin arrives
8. The sound and the fury
9. Fou-rou;
10. “In existing society, the painter is but a broken vessel.”
VII: St. Remy
1. Third Class Carriage
2. The fraternity of fous
3. An old crock is an old crock
4. “I discovered painting when I no longer had teeth or breath.”
VIII: Auvers
1. The first one-man exhibition
2. A specialist in nervous diseases
3. One cannot paint good-bye
4. A more resilient earth
5. “And in their death they were not divided.”
Note
About the Author
Also by Irving Stone
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