1. Van Gogh is referring to Aurier’s article ‘Les isolés: Vincent van Gogh’, which appeared not only in Mercure de France but also in the Belgian magazine L’Art Moderne. See letter 845, n. 2. For the exhibition of Les Vingt, see letter 792, n. 8.
2. For Isaäcson’s article ‘De revolutionaire schildersgroep in Frankrijk’, in De Portefeuille. Kunst- en Letterbode, see RM21, n. 1.
3. Anna Boch had bought The red vineyard (F 495 / JH 1626 [2745]); see letter 855, n. 5.
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4. Adeline Ravoux recalled about Van Gogh: ‘He never drank alcohol’. See Ravoux 1957, p. 7.
5. Cf. 1 Cor. 13:12. Van Gogh quotes this biblical passage in letter 885.
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