Van Gogh with Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh – more letters to his brother

MORE LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER DURING the journey I thought just as often of you as of the new country through which I was travelling, and I said to myself, that later on you would perhaps […]

Van Gogh with Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh – letters to E Bernard

LETTERS TO E. BERNARD I STILL believe that in studios one learns next to nothing about painting and certainly nothing about life, and that one should do all one can to learn to live and to […]

Van Gogh with Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh – letters to his brother

LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER DEAR BROTHER, You must not take it amiss if I write to you again so soon. I do so only in order to tell you how extraordinarily happy painting makes me feel. […]

Van Gogh with Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh: letters of a post-impressionist

The full text of The Letters of a Post-Impressionist being the Fimiliar Correspondence of Vincent van Gogh is reproduced here, including the original monochrome images, in its translation from the original German by the British […]

Edgar Degas - self-portrait photograph

Edgar Degas: his work, his influence

A contemporary account of the work and influence of Degas by the French writer, poet and art critic Séverin Faust (1872-1945), published under the pseudonym Camille Mauclair in 1904. I have said how vain it […]

Monet with Nympheas 1920

Claude Monet: his work, his influence

A contemporary account of the work and influence of Monet by the French writer, poet and art critic Séverin Faust (1872-1945), published under the pseudonym Camille Mauclair in 1904. With Claude Monet we enter upon […]

Renoir in wheelchair painting in his studio

Auguste Renoir and his work

A contemporary account of the work of Renoir by the French writer, poet and art critic Séverin Faust (1872-1945), published under his pseudonym Camille Mauclair in 1904. The work of Auguste Renoir extends without interruption […]