26 letters found
- 552 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, between Tuesday, 12 and Saturday, 16 January 1886.
- in note 11:
... a left-leaning daily whose editors included Maupassant and Richepin, both admired by Van Gogh. The s...
- 553 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Tuesday, 19 or Wednesday, 20 January 1886.
- in note 6:
... part by reading ‘Sur une Vénus’ by Guy de Maupassant in the most recent Gil Blas, that of 12 J...
- 557 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886.
- in note 10:
...mpted by reading ‘Sur une Vénus’ by Guy de Maupassant in Gil Blas of 12 January 1886. See lette...
- 568 Vincent van Gogh and Andries Bonger to Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Wednesday, 18 August 1886.
- in note 11:
Guy de Maupassant, Bel-ami (1885). The protagonist is George Duroy who, on his return from military s...
- in translation:
Bonger is reading Au bonheur des dames and I’ve read Bel-ami by Guy de Maupassant.
- 574 To Willemien van Gogh. Paris, late October 1887.
- in note 9:
..., but decadents and symbolists raved about it. For De Maupassant’s Bel-ami, see letter 568, n. 11.
- in translation:
..., Henri Rochefort among today’s, where one can find that — Voltaire in Candide.Guy de Maupassant
...f the French naturalists Zola, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, De Goncourt, Richepin, Daudet, Huysmans ...
...tances. One should be able to do two or preferably several things at the same time.Guy de Maupassant
- in note 20:
In Guy de Maupassant’s Mont-Oriol (1887), the businessman William Andermatt discovers that in Enval...
- 585 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 16 March 1888.
- in translation:
...knows the works of Zola, De Goncourt and Guy de Maupassant, and he has enough money to have an easy ...
- 588 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 21 or Thursday, 22 March 1888.
- in note 9:
...arre, compliqué, nombreux et chinois) which Maupassant speaks out against in his preface to Pierre e...
- in note 7:
Maupassant quotes from Flaubert: ‘Talent is a matter of patience over time. It involves studying ev...
- in note 6:
Guy de Maupassant’s novel Pierre et Jean (1888) had come out in January 1888. It is a Naturalist st...
- in translation:
Am reading Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant. It’s beautiful — have you read the preface explai...
- 590 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 30 March 1888.
- in translation:
..., as you’ll see when you read Zola and Guy de Maupassant, people definitely want — in art — so...
- 595 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 11 April 1888.
- in note 9:
The novella La Maison Tellier (1881) by Guy de Maupassant describes a day in the life of Madame Telli...
- in translation:
... still touching — but in the end it’s not as jolly as Guy de Maupassant’s La Maison Tellier.
- 604 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 May 1888.
- in note 5:
In Maupassant’s novel Bel-ami, the central character George Duroy is very popular with the women of...
- in translation:
...ghtily pleased if in painting a man like Guy de Maupassant came along and cheerfully painted the bea...
- 625 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 15 and Saturday, 16 June 1888.
- in note 7:
In letter 628 Van Gogh says that Maupassant had been to the Monet exhibition. Theo must have met him ...
- in translation:
You were fortunate to meet Guy de Maupassant — I’ve just read his first book, Des vers, poems ded...
- 628 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 19 June 1888.
- in translation:
...Monet, I’d very much like to see them. Guy de Maupassant, among others, had been there, and said t...
- in note 21:
Theo had written to tell Vincent about his meeting with Guy de Maupassant. See letter 625, n. 7.
- 638 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 July 1888.
- in translation:
Do you remember in Guy de Maupassant the gentleman who hunted rabbits and other game and who had hunt...
... — what you were saying recently about Guy de Maupassant proves it once again. That rakes up the e...
- 662 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 15 August 1888.
- in note 5:
Van Gogh had read in Maupassant’s Des vers (1880) that he regarded Flaubert as his teacher; see let...
- in translation:
...hat Claude Monet is doing in landscape, the rich, bold landscape in the style of Guy de Maupassant.
...the Flauberts and Balzacs make the Zolas and Maupassants? So here’s to — not us — but the gener...
- 669 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.
- in note 12:
See letter 568, n. 11, for Maupassant’s Bel-ami.
- 670 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.
- in note 1:
Miss Harriet (1884) by Guy de Maupassant is a collection of twelve stories and novellas; the o...
- in translation:
Poor Miss Harriet in Guy de Maupassant, she was right, perhaps.
- 678 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888.
- in note 15:
For Maupassant’s Bel-ami see letter 568, n. 11. Van Gogh is referring to the description of the bou...
- in translation:
...anese. You never told me if you had read Guy de Maupassant’s Bel-ami, and what you now think of hi...
Speaking of Guy de Maupassant, I find what he does really beautiful, and I really recommend that you ...
- 687 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
- in note 8:
See letter 568, n. 11, for Guy de Maupassant’s Bel-ami.
- in translation:
... and I’ve told him that he would do a thousand times better to read Guy de Maupassant’s Bel-ami.
- 707 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 17 October 1888.
- in note 12:
See letter 588, n. 6, for Maupassant’s Pierre et Jean.
- in note 11:
In Maupassant’s novella Monsieur Parent (1885), Henri Parent, a forty-year-old man of independent m...
- in translation:
...€™, I find that it leaves no hope, while Guy de Maupassant, who has written things that are certainl...
- 720 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 12 November 1888.
- in translation:
There are so many things in it, as there are in Guy de Maupassant as well.
- 725 Paul Eugène Milliet to Vincent van Gogh. Guelma, Tuesday, 11 December 1888.
- in note 4:
For Maupassant’s Bel-ami, see letter 568, n. 11.
- 739 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Monday, 21 January 1889.
- in note 9:
... the fanciful story of ‘Le Horla’ by Guy de Maupassant, which had appeared two years earlier and...
- 743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.
- in note 21:
For Maupassant’s ‘Horla’, see letter 739, n. 9.
- 768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.
- in note 14:
For Maupassant’s Bel-ami, see letter 568, n. 11.
- 777 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, between about Friday, 31 May and about Thursday, 6 June 1889.
- in note 10:
In Maupassant’s novel Fort comme la mort (1889), a painter receives a commission to paint the portr...
- in translation:
Have you read the new book by Guy de Maupassant, Fort comme la mort, what is its subject? What I read...
- 804 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 19 September 1889.
- in translation:
... admiration for De Goncourt, Zola, Flaubert, Maupassant, Huysmans. But as regards yourself, don’t h...
1 essay item found
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
- in letter_writer_2:
...re naturalist Richepin with the ironical Guy de Maupassant and concluded: ‘I much prefer Guy de Ma...
1 other item found
- Chronology
- in 1888:
About 21 March
#Reads Maupassant’s Pierre et Jean (588).
- in 1887:
...(La joie de vivre, L’assommoir), Flaubert, Maupassant (Bel-ami), the Goncourts (Germinie Lacerteux,...
...Richepin, Daudet and Huysmans. Has just read Maupassant’s Mont Oriol and Tolstoy’s A la recherche...
- in 1886:
Mid-August
#Reads Maupassant’s Bel-ami (568).
Term(s):
Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) French writer
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