VAN GOGHS WOMEN: His Love Affairs and Journey into Madness

Fell, Derek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1861058306 ISBN 13: 9781861058300

Publisher: Robson Books Ltd, 2005

HardCover. Pub Date :2005-4-1 Pages: 275 A widowed first cousin. Kee; a prostitute named Sien; shy. spinsterish Margot Bergemann; the seventeen-year-old peasant girl Stien de Groot-to all of them Vincent van Gogh would declare his love. In none of them would he find the wife to seal the emotional bond that he so perfectly imagined and ardently desired. He described it. too. in his correspondence. not only in the remarkable. justly famous letters exchanged with his brother Theo. but also in heartfelt missives to his aggrieved mother. his loyal sister Wil. and his devoted sister-in-law Johanna. Focusing especially on van Gogh's letters to these three steadfast women he called his sisters. award-winning author Derek Fell examines Vincent's interior life and poignantly documents his emotional decline. Indeed. the blows that Vincent's psyche suffered-like his rejection by Kee and...

Synopsis:

A widowed first cousin, Kee; a prostitute named Slen; shy, spinsterish Margot Bergemann; the seventeen-year-old peasant girl Stien de Groot - to all of them Vincent van Gogh would declare his love. In none of them would he find the wife to seal the emotional bond that he so perfectly imagined and ardently desired. In the artist's correspondence to his brother Theo, to his aggrieved mother, his loyal sister Wil, and his devoted sister-in-law Johanna, Vincent opened his heart. In this penetrating book Derek Fell focuses on van Gogh's letters to these three steadfast women he called his sisters, and in poignantly documenting the artist's emotional decline examines Vincent's interior life and the downward course of his journey into madness.