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Vincent Van Gogh’s Letters Are Wise, Erudite and Ruthlessly Personal

By Stefan Kuiper, translated by Anna Asbury
17 December 2020 7 min. reading time

Vincent van Gogh was not only an artist, but also a passionate letter writer. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam exhibits more than 40 of the 820 preserved letters the painter wrote to his brother Theo, artist friend Paul Gauguin and many others. Those letters, of which a revised English anthology has recently been published, bear witness to a great talent for writing.

Stefan Kuiper

journalist at De Volkskrant

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