search results

129 letters found

571 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, between about Sunday, 17 and Tuesday, 19 July 1887.
in note 8:
...usband, she was not well liked by artists, as Bernard’s description of her makes plain: ‘Silent ...
in note 7:
...diately to the north of Paris, just a few miles from rue Lepic. Signac and Bernard worked there too.
in note 3:
In 1908 Bernard wrote that Segatori gave Van Gogh free meals in exchange for paintings, mainly flower...
in note 2:
...d in his ‘Souvenirs sur Van Gogh’ of 1924 Bernard said that he courted her by giving her a flowe...
574 To Willemien van Gogh. Paris, late October 1887.
in note 9:
Emile Bernard mentioned A rebours (1884) in his ‘In memoriam’ of Van Gogh: ‘Huysmans had an ino...
575 To Emile Bernard. Paris, about December 1887.
in note 9:
...rs of the ‘Petit Boulevard’ – Anquetin, Bernard, Koning, Toulouse-Lautrec and himself – in G...
in note 8:
Bernard’s military service was a regular topic of conversation. In 1888 it seemed for a while that ...
in note 7:
In the course of 1887 Bernard and Anquetin had demonstratively distanced themselves from the Pointill...
in note 6:
It is not known which of Bernard’s self-portraits he is referring to.
in note 4:
...ers to as an article elsewhere. We know that on one occasion he lent it to Bernard (see letter 735).
in note 2:
...es further on in the letter that Van Gogh and Bernard had had a difference of opinion about the usef...
in translation:
My dear old Bernard,
578 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 24 February 1888.
in note 11:
...rew to become a well-known artists’ colony. Bernard had been to Pont-Aven in August 1886 and had m...
in translation:
If you see Bernard tell him that so far I’m having to pay more than at Pont-Aven, but that I think ...
584 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 10 March 1888.
in note 8:
...heo was not at the sale in person, but got Emile Bernard to buy the drawing for him: ‘he had young...
in note 6:
...ed Guillaumin, Seurat and Gauguin, as well as Bernard, Anquetin, Angrand, Toulouse-Lautrec, Signac, ...
585 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 16 March 1888.
in translation:
...e your hand firmly. On Sunday I’ll write to Bernard and Lautrec because I solemnly promised to. An...
587 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 18 March 1888.
in note 3:
...te to Theo telling him that he had introduced Bernard and Anquetin to Japanese graphic art (letter 6...
588 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 21 or Thursday, 22 March 1888.
in note 5:
... in line with the Cloisonnism of Anquetin and Bernard. Cf. letter 575, n. 7 and letter 620, nn. 11 a...
in note 1:
The letter to Bernard is 587; the one to Toulouse-Lautrec is not known. This is the only time that Va...
in translation:
Here’s a short note for Bernard and Lautrec, to whom I’d solemnly promised to write. I’m sendin...
...n the study of which I’ve made a croquis in Bernard’s letter. My aim was to give it colours like...
589 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 25 March 1888.
in note 7:
...Van Gogh described the study in letter 587 to Bernard (which was enclosed with letter 588 to Theo), ...
in note 16:
...ment n. 4 above; it did not include a work by Bernard. We have been unable to identify his ‘little...
in translation:
...th figures and a bridge that I was talking to Bernard about. As the bad weather prevented me from wo...
...e little head of a Breton woman by our friend Bernard in your consignment, that wouldn’t be a bad ...
591 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 1 April 1888.
in note 8:
Cf. letter 628 to Emile Bernard, where a passage about the same method is illustrated with a sketch.
594 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 April 1888.
in note 14:
...d at 5 avenue de Beaulieu in Asnières, where Bernard had his studio in the garden. See exhib. cat. ...
in translation:
It was kind of you to go and see Bernard. If he does his service in Algeria, who knows, perhaps I’l...
596 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 12 April 1888.
in note 5:
Bernard had spent the summers of 1886 and 1887 in Brittany, mainly in Saint-Briac, and was now prepar...
in note 4:
... his style is in line with the Cloisonnism of Bernard and Anquetin. The object of this tactical rema...
in note 1:
... of the wooden studio that had been built for Bernard in his parents’ garden in Asnières. There m...
in translation:
My dear old Bernard,
597 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 13 April 1888.
in note 13:
...own. See for Van Gogh’s reaction to them to Bernard: letter 599. We can infer from this postscript...
in translation:
I’ve had a letter from Bernard with some sonnets that he’s made, some of which are successful; he...
599 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Thursday, 19 April 1888.
in note 3:
In a letter to his parents of 26 April 1888 Bernard wrote that he had found Van Gogh’s letter on hi...
in note 2:
Emile Bernard included the sonnet ‘A feu Joseph Delorme’ in Le voyage de l’être. Poèmes d’�...
in translation:
My dear old Bernard, don’t despair and above all, don’t be downhearted, my good fellow, because w...
600 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 20 April 1888.
in note 7:
...ee that I worked to death’ has not survived; Van Gogh described the work in letter 599 to Bernard.
in note 16:
...ring here to one of the still lifes he saw at Bernard’s before he left Paris: Still life: the blue...
in translation:
I saw Bernard’s still life when he was working on it, and I thought it superb.
602 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 1 May 1888.
in note 6:
We do not know which paintings by Guillaumin and Bernard were in Russell’s possession.
in note 4:
Bernard stayed in Saint-Briac in Brittany from 25 April until about 10 August. See letter 664, n. 2. ...
in translation:
...s, which are ruinous and depress me. In fact, Bernard writes me that he too has a whole house, but h...
...f being ruined. So once again, it’s patience I need in the circumstances, and perseverance.Bernard
Bernard has written to me and sent croquis.
in note 20:
In letter 612 Van Gogh thanks Bernard for this sketch, a portrait of a woman. It was probably the dra...
606 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 May 1888.
in translation:
...n’t manage to get by on the same expenses as those who have gone to Brittany, Bernard and Gauguin.
611 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 20 May 1888.
in note 6:
...mitted the painted border in the letter sketch and in the sketch he sent to Bernard with letter 622.
612 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 22 May 1888.
in note 7:
...h coffee pot (F 410 / JH 1426). Van Gogh sent Bernard a sketch of this painting with his next letter...
in note 5:
...ion from the poem ‘La Prostitution’ by Emile Bernard, who wrote in his 1911 publication: ‘It w...
in note 1:
...d in Martinique between May and October 1887. Bernard certainly knew the two works that Theo and Vin...
in translation:
My dear Bernard,
613 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 26 May 1888.
in translation:
I prefer to believe that Bernard or Gauguin will exchange drawings with us in which the Dutch will se...
615 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 May 1888.
in translation:
...to make such an album for Gauguin and one for Bernard. Because the drawings will become better than ...
616 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 or Tuesday, 29 May 1888.
in note 7:
...it had not produced a result. We do not know which works Russell bought from Guillaumin and Bernard.
in note 3:
Bernard was supposed to be going to Algeria to do his military service, and Van Gogh wanted to meet h...
in translation:
...ld be the beginnings of an association, then. Bernard, who’s coming to the south too, will join us...
...e Impressionists all the same, Guillaumin and Bernard and — wait for your moment — he’ll come ...
620 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 5 June 1888.
in note 12:
...out the contents of Dujardin’s article from Bernard. Although Bernard and Anquetin had developed t...
in note 11:
... style that was related to the Cloisonnism of Bernard and Anquetin (see letter 588). His comment tha...
in translation:
...n came here, he and I could perhaps accompany Bernard to Africa when he goes there to do his service...
...levard is without any doubt Seurat, and young Bernard has perhaps gone further than Anquetin in the ...
622 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 7 June 1888.
in note 9:
This passage prompted Bernard to write to his parents: ‘Vincent has written to me. He likes it in A...
in note 5:
...ikewise applies to the Cloisonnism developed by Bernard and Anquetin. See letter 620, nn. 11 and 12.
in translation:
My dear old Bernard,
627 To John Peter Russell. Arles, on or about Sunday, 17 June 1888.
in translation:
Bernard is still in Brittany and I believe he’s working hard and doing well. Gauguin is in Brittany...
RM15 Fragment of a letter on the back of the sketch Head of a girl (F 1507a / JH 1466). To John Peter Russell. Arles, on or about Sunday, 17 June 1888.
in translation:
Bernard is doing good things I believe and taking a lot of trouble.
628 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 19 June 1888.
in note 9:
...Van Gogh had raised in his previous letter to Bernard (622), who had presumably asked him to explain...
in note 7:
Bernard sent him a drawing of a brothel soon afterwards, which Vincent sent on to Theo, saying: ‘it...
in note 5:
Van Gogh had written to Bernard about this subject before (see letter 596).
in note 3:
...t noon), 1887 (private collection). Ill. 508. Bernard described it as one of Anquetin’s ‘Japanes...
in note 18:
...e he knew that he was an important figure for Bernard, with his aspiration to become a poet. Bernard...
in translation:
My dear Bernard,
629 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 21 June 1888.
in note 2:
Bernard went to Pont-Aven in August: see letter 664, n. 2.
in note 1:
... wanted to use quotations from the letters to Bernard: ‘In few days’ time, I should be grateful ...
in translation:
I had a letter from Bernard, who says he feels very isolated but works all the same — and has writt...
... curious to know what Gauguin will do, and if Bernard won’t go to join him in Pont-Aven; I already...
630 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 23 June 1888.
in note 8:
...ge the painting Zouave (F 423 / JH 1486) with Bernard. Eventually he sent the watercolour Zouave (F ...
in note 7:
There is no known painted version of Bernard’s Brothel scene.
in note 6:
On the back of the drawing Bernard wrote (accents added by us):
in note 5:
Emile Bernard, The acrobats, 1887 (Montevideo, Uruguay, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan Manuel B...
in note 4:
Emile Bernard, Brothel scene, with the dedication ‘à mon ami Vincent ce croquis bête’ (to my fr...
in translation:
Bernard’s in the same position. Today he sends me a croquis of a brothel that I’m sending you enc...
631 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 25 June 1888.
in translation:
...ld benefit from the money I spend by myself. Either Vignon, or Gauguin, or Bernard, or someone else.
632 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Tuesday, 26 June 1888.
in note 18:
...er-20 December 1887), at the time when he and Bernard were going around together in Paris. See exhib...
in note 17:
See for Bernard’s Brothel scene: letter 630, n. 4.
in note 10:
...ace, rather than anywhere else, as an example because he and Bernard painted there together in 1887.
in translation:
My dear Bernard,
These reflections, my dear old Bernard — take us a very long way — a very long way — raising us...
in note 26:
...ently amused him to lay it on a bit thick for Bernard. Potter’s painting measures 41 x 30 cm, so i...
in note 23:
Although Bernard evidently shared Van Gogh’s opinion of King Louis xiv at the time, he later noted ...
in note 22:
Bernard wrote to Andries Bonger about this passage on 31 December 1892: ‘What do you think of this ...
633 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Wednesday, 27 June 1888.
in note 6:
In his Vollard edition of the letters, Bernard felt that he had to correct Van Gogh about the animals...
in note 4:
Zouave (F 423 / JH 1486). Bernard never got this painting.
in note 3:
See letter 630, n. 4, for Bernard’s Brothel scene.
in translation:
My dear Bernard —
634 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Thursday, 28 June 1888.
in note 2:
Van Gogh had sent Theo Bernard’s Brothel scene; see letter 630.
in translation:
...Post Office had the pleasure of being able to edify themselves by contemplating Bernard’s brothel.
637 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 8 or Monday, 9 July 1888.
in translation:
Just you watch, Bernard will have the same story with the Tanguys, only worse.
640 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in note 7:
Bernard sold his first painting to the art dealer Georges Thomas, who Van Gogh mentions later in the ...
in note 5:
... the end of April 1887, because that was when Bernard left for Brittany and it is apparent from the ...
in note 1:
... he must have swapped more than one work with Bernard. We know that while he was in Paris he exchang...
in note 12:
...hich flower painting Tanguy had. According to Bernard, Van Gogh had left a great many flower still l...
in note 11:
...See letter 641 for the drawings Van Gogh sent Bernard. Bernard sent Van Gogh several sketches soon a...
in translation:
...y and I’d also given a good many Japanese prints to Bernard, when I made the exchanges with him.
...bourin had quite an influence on Anquetin and Bernard, but it was such a disaster. For the 2nd exhib...
I’m working on some drawings for Bernard so that he’ll send me some of his.
641 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in note 3:
Since Bernard often mentions Crivelli in his correspondence, it is likely that Van Gogh is responding...
in note 1:
... to Theo later that day (letter 642) and what Bernard wrote to his parents in July. He told them he ...
in translation:
My dear old Bernard.
642 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in note 9:
..., n. 1, for the batch of six drawings sent to Bernard. Soon afterwards Van Gogh sent him another nin...
in note 5:
...to mean that Van Gogh introduced Anquetin and Bernard to Bing (cf. Welsh-Ovcharov in exhib. cat. Par...
in translation:
I learned there myself, and I got Anquetin and Bernard to learn with me.
Today I sent Bernard 6 drawings after painted studies; I promised him 6 more and asked for an exchang...
...ay got through, writing to you and writing to Bernard; however, I must say it didn’t seem long to ...
643 To Emile Bernard. Arles, between Tuesday, 17 and Friday, 20 July 1888.
in note 2:
Bernard must have responded to what Van Gogh had written two letters previously: ‘Ah, if several pa...
in translation:
My dear old Bernard,
My dear old Bernard — by collaboration I didn’t mean that in my view two or more painters should ...
647 John Peter Russell to Vincent van Gogh. Belle-Île-en-Mer, Sunday, 22 July 1888.
in translation:
Young Bernard writes me from Saint-Briac.
649 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
in note 9:
Bernard defended the style of the primitives, as is clear from his introduction to the 1911 edition, ...
in note 6:
Emile Bernard added an annotation in his 1911 edition of the letters which is worth including here (i...
in note 4:
Emile Bernard, Breton woman with an umbrella. Ill. 2198.
in note 3:
Emile Bernard, Breton woman in an orchard. Ill. 2197.
in note 2:
Emile Bernard, Lane in Brittany with figures. Ill. 2196.
in note 1:
...n from Vincent’s next letter to Theo (650), Bernard sent ten drawings. Seven of them are referred ...
in note 15:
... palette in his hand’), likewise written to Bernard, who was familiar with the collection in the L...
in note 14:
...a footnote to this remark in the 1911 edition Bernard wrote: ‘Strange assertion!… The Pilgrims o...
in translation:
My dear old Bernard,
650 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
in note 16:
See for Bernard’s Lane in Brittany with figures: letter 649, n. 2.
in note 15:
See for Bernard’s A woman washing herself: letter 649, n. 5.
in note 13:
Bernard’s drawing Brothel scene, 1888 (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 2322, which Vincent had se...
in note 12:
For these sketches by Bernard see letter 649, n. 1.
in translation:
I’ve received from Bernard 10 croquis like his brothel; there are 3 of them that are in the style o...
... I think Russell will buy something else from Bernard. Now I’ve seen work by this Boch; it’s rig...
651 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Monday, 30 July 1888.
in note 6:
This passage was prompted by Van Gogh’s objections to Bernard’s works of these subjects.
in note 4:
...Eugène Delacroix: letter 526, n. 2. Van Gogh lent this book to Bernard, as we know from letter 735.
in note 1:
...uez and Goya in the Louvre, with which he and Bernard were familiar. The works by Velázquez were Th...
in translation:
My dear old Bernard.
Am I, my dear old Bernard, terribly incomprehensible this time? I’m trying to make you see the grea...
in note 26:
See letter 649 for Bernard’ drawing Lubricity: Although the 1911 edition renders ‘l’arbre’...
in note 25:
In his 1911 edition, Bernard placed a note here to explain why Van Gogh was so vehement; see letter 6...
652 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
in note 10:
See letter 649, n. 1-5, for these sketches by Bernard.
in translation:
Have you received Bernard’s croquis?
655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
in note 9:
...ciety that produced it. Here Van Gogh accuses Bernard of trying to produce art that belongs centurie...
in note 8:
... colour theory of the Neo-Impressionists, and Bernard and Anquetin applied it to lines and forms. Th...
in note 3:
Emile Bernard, Bernard’s grandmother, 1887 (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 2212. Bernard gave th...
in note 2:
See letter 600, n. 16, for Bernard’s Still life: the blue coffeepot and Still life: earthenware ...
in note 16:
Van Gogh must be referring to the drawings Bernard had sent, which are mentioned in letters 649 and 6...
in note 14:
... 599, and in letter 628 he had pointed out to Bernard that ‘painting and fucking a lot aren’t co...
in translation:
My dear old Bernard,
...orms. The trouble is, do you see, my dear old Bernard, that Giotto, Cimabue, as well as Holbein and ...
If we don’t know what to do, my dear old Bernard, then let’s do the same as them, if only so as n...
In your case, my poor dear old Bernard, I already told you last spring. Eat well, do your military dr...
658 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 9 August 1888.
in translation:
...I recall that he mentioned that amount, he or Bernard), we know for a firm fact the price of a day a...
660 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 13 August 1888.
in translation:
...o me to risk more than is proper, when he and Bernard spend so little in Brittany. Well, we’ll hav...
664 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 19 or Monday, 20 August 1888.
in note 3:
...d academic artists must have been prompted by Bernard’s letter. In Pont-Aven there was something o...
in note 2:
...r 655 of about 5 August Van Gogh had answered Bernard’s question as to whether Gauguin was still i...
in translation:
...p project. I’ve just received a letter from Bernard, who joined Gauguin, Laval and someone else at...
665 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 21 August 1888.
in note 9:
... Van Gogh may have been influenced in part by Bernard, who had done something similar for his studio...
in note 5:
.../ JH 1549), was sent to Theo with letter 663. Bernard probably did, though, get the drawing Patience...
in note 2:
See letter 664, n. 2, for Bernard’s stay in Pont-Aven.
in note 11:
... of address tells us that Van Gogh counted on Bernard’s showing the letter to Gauguin (and possibl...
in note 10:
Here Van Gogh cites one of Bernard’s sources of inspiration in order to lend weight to his argument...
in translation:
My dear Bernard,
666 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 21 or Wednesday, 22 August 1888.
in note 1:
Bernard had also written about this; see letter 664, n. 3.
in note 12:
... this album. Van Gogh had sent two batches of drawings to Bernard in mid-July; see letter 641, n. 1.
in translation:
...us Englishmen; he says many good things about Bernard’s work, and Bernard says many good things ab...
Gauguin said that Bernard had made an album of croquis of mine, and that he’d shown it to him.
668 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 23 or Friday, 24 August 1888.
in translation:
...es who represent decadence today. Gauguin and Bernard are now talking about doing ‘children’s pa...
674 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 4 September 1888.
in translation:
Neither Gauguin nor Bernard has written to me again. I believe that Gauguin doesn’t give a damn, se...
675 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, on or about Saturday, 8 September 1888.
in note 3:
Emile Bernard had been in Pont-Aven for a month, see letter 664.
in translation:
I’m studying young Bernard, whom I don’t know as well as you do; I believe you’ll do him good, ...
676 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 8 September 1888.
in translation:
I’ve written to Gauguin and to Bernard this week, but I didn’t talk about anything but paintings,...
679 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 10 September 1888.
in note 1:
...r from Gauguin is letter 675; the letter from Bernard has not survived (it was not sent on to Theo)....
in translation:
...ich arrived at the same time as a letter from Bernard. At last, it’s the cry of distress.... my de...
680 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 11 September 1888.
in note 4:
In this letter to Gauguin and Bernard, which has not survived, Van Gogh had suggested that the two sh...
in note 10:
...is painting is not known. Van Gogh sent it to Bernard in Pont-Aven in October; see letter 696, n. 10...
in translation:
... wish; I would so much like to have here Gauguin’s portrait of Bernard and Bernard’s of Gauguin.
...lp to others, too, if the opportunity arises. Bernard says that it makes him suffer to see how Gaugu...
682 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in translation:
As I write, very kind letter from Bernard, who’s thinking of coming to Arles this winter — whim �...
Bernard’s letter speaks of Gauguin with great respect and sympathy, and I’m convinced that they h...
I don’t believe that it’s wise to offer Bernard 150 francs for one painting a month immediately, ...
For Bernard, if Bernard wished to come here, it wouldn’t be on the same conditions as Gauguin — i...
I’m keeping all Bernard’s letters, they’re sometimes really interesting; you’ll read them som...
683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in note 14:
Nothing is known about a quarrel between Bernard and Gauguin in the winter of 1887-1888. The two arti...
in translation:
...while actually working, I thought a lot about Bernard. His letter is full of veneration for Gauguin�...
...aving extended his stay by 4 days. I’d like Bernard to go to do his military service in Africa, be...
...d him, because he feels too shy with Gauguin. Bernard is actually so temperamental!! He’s sometime...
in note 28:
Van Gogh had received a letter from Bernard the previous day; see letter 682.
684 To Emile Bernard. Arles, between Wednesday, 19 and Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
in note 6:
This passage reflects the ideas of Bernard and Gauguin, who were constantly urging Van Gogh to work f...
in note 3:
Van Gogh suspected that Bernard’s plan to come to Arles was a ‘whim’, so in letter 682 he advis...
in note 2:
Milliet the Zouave was introduced to Bernard in letter 628.
in note 1:
A letter from Van Gogh to Gauguin and Bernard, written between the preceding letter and this one, has...
in translation:
My dear old Bernard.
But, my dear old Bernard, I want to be very clear and plain in saying to you, do come and spend your ...
686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.
in note 12:
Bernard was probably the target of Van Gogh’s criticism here. He had a predilection for the Italian...
687 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
in note 16:
Evidently Bernard had complained to Van Gogh that his father did not support him enough. However the ...
in note 15:
Van Gogh had written this in letter 684 to Bernard.
in note 14:
Bernard had sent six sketches altogether; see letter 696. They were probably Meadow with figures and ...
in translation:
...criticize Zola’s book. I’ll send you five drawings by Bernard, of the same kind as the others.
... he’ll come or not come, I couldn’t offer Bernard hospitality for free, or even paid for with pa...
...her to you or to me, we could still see about Bernard. It seems to me that it would definitely suit ...
...a touch more magnanimous towards him. Because Bernard takes pains. However, I don’t like these dra...
688 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, on or about Wednesday, 26 September 1888.
in note 8:
Van Gogh had written to Bernard about the cost of living in Arles in letter 684.
in note 6:
See letter 704, n. 1, for the paintings Bernard took with him to Paris.
in note 3:
... referring here to Van Gogh’s letter 684 to Bernard, written between Wednesday, 19 and Tuesday, 25...
in note 2:
...nal Galleries of Scotland). Ill. 118. In 1904 Bernard recounted how Gauguin had offered the painting...
in translation:
...it as I understand it. I’m studying young Bernard, and I don’t have him yet. I shall perhaps d...
Young Bernard will shortly be taking several canvases of mine to Paris.
...commodation goes; apart from yours, Laval and Bernard could have a small furnished room nearby. I li...
689 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 26 September 1888.
in note 14:
See letter 687, n. 14, for these drawings Bernard sent.
in translation:
...u any news of Gauguin? I expect a letter from Bernard at any moment, which will follow the croquis, ...
690 To Emile Bernard. Arles, between Thursday, 27 September and Monday, 1 October 1888.
in note 2:
Van Gogh had written about the cost of living in Arles in his previous letter to Bernard (684).
in note 1:
See letter 687, n. 14, for the drawings Bernard sent. Van Gogh discusses the two sketches Prostitu...
in translation:
My dear old Bernard,
691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.
in note 18:
... the same comparison between making paintings and mining diamonds in letters 651 and 696 to Bernard.
in note 12:
Van Gogh had written to Bernard about the cost of living in Arles in letter 684.
in translation:
...her. How I think of you and of Gauguin and of Bernard, everywhere and at all times! It’s so beauti...
...lso come in February. And I having written to Bernard that I believed that he couldn’t live on les...
692 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, Monday, 1 October 1888.
in note 5:
...discussions about Christ between Van Gogh and Bernard. In letter 632, which Bernard had shown to Gau...
in note 1:
Emile Bernard, Self-portrait with portrait of Gauguin, 1888 (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 2261; ...
in translation:
... as a reformer, I don’t believe so. Our pal Bernard is working and making plans to come to Arles t...
694 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in note 7:
See letter 692, n. 1, for Bernard, Self-portrait with portrait of Gauguin.
in note 12:
The letters to Gauguin and Bernard are 695 and 696.
in translation:
...t of hearts. It reached me with a letter from Bernard, which Gauguin will probably have read and of ...
...t written to them rather strongly, this portrait wouldn’t exist, and Bernard has done one too, so:
...as wrong, but it’s still the case that Gauguin has given birth to a painting, and Bernard as well.
I have to reply to Gauguin and to Bernard this afternoon, and I’m going to tell them that whatever ...
...ave 4 — will make it possible for us to put Bernard up for nothing, seeing that we’ll put a pall...
... he’ll see fit, and if it can be done, help Bernard, Laval, others, in exchange for studies or pai...
...uments, if it works in such a way that Laval, Bernard do in fact come, it won’t be me but it will ...
... that on Friday I’ll have your next letter. Bernard’s letter is once again full of the convictio...
695 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in note 15:
See letter 698, n. 1, for this exchange with Bernard, Laval, Moret and Chamaillard.
in note 13:
Bernard owned the drawing Newly mown lawn with a weeping tree (F 1450 / JH 1509), which shows the sam...
in translation:
... for it, the garden of a poet (in the croquis Bernard has there’s a first idea for it, later simpl...
Bernard tells me that he, Moret, Laval and someone else would do an exchange with me. I am really, in...
696 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in note 8:
See letter 698, n. 1, for this exchange with Bernard, Laval, Moret and Chamaillard.
in note 7:
This idea of a freemasonry of painters must have been suggested by Bernard in his latest letter.
in note 6:
...about the cost of living in Arles in his two previous letters to Bernard (see letters 684 and 690).
in note 3:
Van Gogh wrote this in his previous letter to Bernard: see letter 690.
in note 1:
Bernard’s last letter had evidently contained a small sketch of two Breton women. It is not known t...
in note 19:
Bernard owned the drawing Newly mown lawn with a weeping tree (F 1450 / JH 1509), which shows the sam...
in note 18:
It is not clear which three paintings by Bernard he means. There may be a connection with the sketche...
in note 17:
Bernard added the following note at this point in the Vollard edition: ‘Allusion to a caricature by...
in note 16:
... JH 1575). This paragraph seems to imply that Bernard had asked for a repetition of this work, which...
in note 15:
... sand barges (F 449 / JH 1558). Van Gogh dedicated this painting to Bernard (see letter 698, n. 11).
in note 14:
...h-Bonger) rules out their having been sent to Bernard. See Roskill 1971, p. 161 (n. 105) and Account...
in translation:
My dear old Bernard,
697 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 4 or Friday, 5 October 1888.
in note 2:
...ith portrait of Bernard, ‘Les misérables’, and Bernard, Self-portrait with portrait of Gauguin.
in note 10:
Bernard sent an album (eleven loose sheets in a binder), titled Au bordel (At the brothel) on the fro...
in translation:
...ived Gauguin’s portrait done by himself and Bernard’s portrait by Bernard, with B.’s portrait ...
... is immediately remarkable, but I myself like Bernard’s very much, it’s nothing but an idea of a...
Bernard has sent me another collection of ten or so drawings, with a gallant piece of verse — the w...
698 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Friday, 5 October 1888.
in note 8:
Van Gogh wanted Bernard to have Quay with sand barges (F 449 / JH 1558) (see n. 11 below). The latter...
in note 5:
Van Gogh had written to Bernard about his painting The night café (F 463 / JH 1575) in a letter that...
in note 4:
See letter 697, n. 10, for Bernard’s poem.
in note 2:
See letter 697, n. 10, for Bernard’s album of drawings titled At the brothel.
in note 1:
...ith portrait of Bernard, ‘Les misérables’, and Bernard, Self-portrait with portrait of Gauguin.
in translation:
My dear old Bernard.
You know, Bernard, it always seems to me that if I want to do studies of brothels I’d need more mon...
699 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 8 October 1888.
in note 11:
See letter 692, n. 1, for Bernard, Self-portrait with portrait of Gauguin.
in translation:
...y you’ll see the two portraits of G. and of Bernard. And you’ll compare with the negresses. And ...
700 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 9 or Wednesday, 10 October 1888.
in note 8:
See letter 697, n. 10, for Bernard’s set of drawings titled At the brothel. The drawing of the h...
in translation:
...eantime. I’m doing a study of a brothel for Bernard, from memory. Did you see that my drawing, whi...
701 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 10 or Thursday, 11 October 1888.
in translation:
Making lithographs in the evening. You, me, Bernard, Laval..... fine — I’m in, of course — but ...
702 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 10 or Thursday, 11 October 1888.
in translation:
...curious to know what he has done in Brittany. Bernard writes many good things about it. But doing ri...
704 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 15 October 1888.
in note 6:
In terms of the batch of paintings sent to Bernard and Gauguin, by ‘what I had done in figure paint...
in note 5:
...(F 526 / JH 1309). Cf. letter 698, n. 8. See letter 655, n. 3, for Bernard, Bernard’s grandmother.
in note 2:
...h sand barges (F 449 / JH 1558) was meant for Bernard, in exchange for his Self-portrait with portra...
in note 1:
... to Paris, several canvases to take with her. Bernard was to bring the rest of the paintings, among ...
in note 11:
...hing along the lines of the exchange of self-portraits with Gauguin and Bernard. Nothing came of it.
in translation:
His letter was accompanied by a letter from Bernard, to say that they’d received my consignment of ...
Gauguin has my portrait, and Bernard says that he’d like to have one like it, although he already h...
... portraits was because I believed that he and Bernard would certainly have made several studies, eac...
712 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Thursday, 25 October 1888.
in note 4:
Emile Bernard, Breton women in the meadow (private collection). Ill. 2236.
in translation:
...t a magnificent canvas that he exchanged with Bernard, Breton women in a green meadow. White, black,...
714 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 27 or Sunday, 28 October 1888.
in translation:
It’s now quite likely that Bernard will go to Africa, where he’ll be with Milliet, who greets you...
716 Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin to Emile Bernard. Arles, Thursday, 1 or Friday, 2 November 1888.
in note 3:
Van Gogh used the plural, so apparently Bernard had told him that he had taken two works from Van Gog...
in translation:
My dear old Bernard,
717 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 3 November 1888.
in note 4:
...��) (F 487 / JH 1621). Gauguin had written to Bernard that the canvases were hanging in his room; se...
718 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 10 November 1888.
in note 7:
... 1599). Hulsker took this to be the study for Bernard that is mentioned in letters 698 and 700 (see ...
in note 15:
A letter from Gauguin to Bernard reveals that this must have been an order for paints: ‘I’m going...
in translation:
...ames, which he wants with keys, and also what Bernard will ask from you for a commission he gave him...
719 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 11 or Monday, 12 November 1888.
in note 7:
For Bernard’s painting Breton women in the meadow, which Gauguin had taken to Arles, see letter 712...
in note 3:
This seascape by Bernard is not known. It emerges from letter 716 that Bernard had chosen two studies...
in translation:
Also a seascape by Bernard in exchange for canvases of mine.
If you could ever get a fine Bernard I strongly urge you to do so. Gauguin has a superb one.
721 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 19 November 1888.
in note 7:
Gauguin, by contrast, wrote to Bernard in the second half of November 1888 about his relations with V...
in note 6:
... 1984, p. 235). One naturally thinks first of Bernard, who had been back in Paris since about 10 Nov...
722 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 21 November 1888.
in note 7:
For Bernard’s Breton women in the meadow, see letter 712, n. 4.
in translation:
Have you seen the studies that Bernard brought back from Brittany? Gauguin has told me many things ab...
723 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 1 December 1888.
in translation:
...amily, but you should know that in my opinion Bernard’s work is very fine and that he’ll have so...
725 Paul Eugène Milliet to Vincent van Gogh. Guelma, Tuesday, 11 December 1888.
in note 2:
... had asked Milliet if he would take charge of Bernard, if the latter were to serve with the Zouaves ...
in translation:
I’ve been thinking about Bernard. I’ve been working on his behalf as much as possible. The office...
728 Vincent van Gogh and Félix Rey to Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 2 January 1889.
in note 1:
...p. liv, and Brief happiness 1999, pp. 70-71). Bernard’s letter of 1 January 1889 to Albert Aurier ...
735 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 9 January 1889.
in translation:
Has Bernard returned the Silvestre book to you yet? I’ll need the exact title to get those doctors...
737 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 17 January 1889.
in note 4:
... who received it in Arles and forwarded it to Bernard. See Correspondance Gauguin 1984, pp. 256, 269...
in translation:
...ok it with me (all my apologies). I’ve seen Bernard twice since I arrived in Paris. He has a very ...
738 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 19 January 1889.
in note 6:
... had asked Milliet if he would take charge of Bernard in Africa, if the latter went to serve with th...
in translation:
Bernard is being pestered more and more by his father, it’s becoming even more of a hell in that ho...
They’re now going to try, Gauguin and Bernard, to exempt Bernard from military service because of n...
745 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 3 February 1889.
in translation:
...to our real friends like Gauguin, Guillaumin, Bernard &c. that we’re engaged in the work of produc...
748 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 25 February 1889.
in translation:
Bernard has written to me as well. I haven’t been able to reply yet, for it’s so difficult to exp...
750 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 19 March 1889.
in translation:
Explain to Bernard that I haven’t been able to reply to him, it’s quite a performance to write a ...
753 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 29 March 1889.
in note 9:
... cat. Otterlo 2003, pp. 165-167. According to Bernard, this lady was a ‘pierreuse’ (streetwalker...
765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
in translation:
...n’t quite know what to do. I myself advised Bernard to do his military service, so is it so astoni...
in note 28:
For Bernard’s Self-portrait with portrait of Gauguin, see letter 692, n. 1.
774 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 21 May 1889.
in note 2:
...two of these, F 506 and F 508, to Gauguin and Bernard (see letter 776); the provenance of the other ...
776 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 23 May 1889.
in note 6:
Van Gogh is suggesting that Gauguin and Bernard should each be given a version of the Berceuse not on...
in note 4:
...ee Gauguin lettres 1983, p. 331. We know that Bernard also had a Berceuse in his possession from a l...
in translation:
... Berceuse that wasn’t mounted on a stretching frame, and to Bernard too, as a token of friendship.
779 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 June 1889.
in note 13:
...ges-Daniel de Monfreid and 2 by Ludovic Nemo (Bernard’s pseudonym). See exhib. cat. Paris 1889-5 a...
in translation:
... exhibition of Impressionists called Gauguin, Bernard, Anquetin and other names. Am therefore inclin...
781 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 16 June 1889.
in note 3:
...t had handed things over to Schuffenecker and Bernard when he left. See Gauguin lettres 1983, pp. 92...
782 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889.
in translation:
For me it’s beyond doubt that Gauguin and Bernard have great and real merit.
Young Bernard – according to me – has already made a few absolutely astonishing canvases in which...
...seen the latest canvases either by Gauguin or Bernard, I’m fairly sure that these two studies I sp...
Gauguin, Bernard or I will all remain there perhaps, and won’t overcome but neither will we be over...
783 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 25 June 1889.
in translation:
Speaking of Gauguin, Bernard and the fact that they might well do more consolatory painting, I must, ...
784 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
in note 14:
Gauguin and Bernard described their work as ‘primitive’.
790 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 14 or Monday, 15 July 1889.
in note 1:
...983, p. 109. In August 1889, Gauguin wrote to Bernard about the present letter: ‘Vincent has writt...
792 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 16 July 1889.
in translation:
... anything against it. He’ll probably invite Bernard as well. People generally like the Night effec...
797 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 22 August 1889.
in translation:
I’ve received catalogue of the Gauguin, Bernard, Schuffenecker &c. exhibition, which I find interes...
800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.
in translation:
...ious that Maus has the idea of inviting young Bernard and me for the next Vingtistes exhibition, I w...
805 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 20 September 1889.
in translation:
... even if it may be exaggerated. That’s what Bernard and Gauguin feel a little bit, they won’t as...
807 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 4 October 1889.
in note 9:
Bernard had spent the month of August in Saint-Briac in Brittany, but was back in Paris in September....
in translation:
...even in the latest Gauguins, I find. Tomorrow Bernard is to come and see your paintings, and I’ll ...
808 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 5 October 1889.
in translation:
...I’d like to write to Isaäcson, Gauguin and Bernard. But writing doesn’t always come, and what�...
How I’d like to see what Gauguin and Bernard have brought back.
809 To Emile Bernard. Saint-Rémy, on or about Tuesday, 8 October 1889.
in note 3:
Bernard had spent some time in Saint-Briac in the summer of 1889. In contrast to what Van Gogh eviden...
in note 2:
On 4 October Theo had reported that Bernard was coming to look at Vincent’s paintings (letter 807)....
in note 1:
...Gogh now occasionally addresses his ‘pal’ Bernard with ‘vous’, since in his previous letters...
in note 11:
Bernard’s Yellow tree fits this description and is accordingly often dated to 1888. However, it is ...
in note 10:
Regarding Bernard’s military service, see letter 575, n. 8.
in translation:
My dear friend Bernard,
810 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 8 October 1889.
in note 9:
Regarding Bernard’s military service, see letter 575, n. 8.
in translation:
...perhaps be dazzling. But then he won’t have Bernard with him if the latter does his military servi...
I’m enclosing a note for Isaäcson, Bernard and Gauguin. Naturally there’s no urgency at all to g...
814 Joseph Roulin to Vincent van Gogh. Marseille, Thursday, 24 October 1889.
in note 2:
... the same number of canvases in letter 809 to Bernard; see n. 4 to that letter for the works in ques...
RM18 Fragment of a letter to Theo van Gogh containing a copy of the poem ‘St Jerome’s love’ by Thomas Moore. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, about November-December 1889.
in note 1:
Emile Bernard’s military service.
816 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Sunday, 3 November 1889.
in note 12:
...Gauguin lettres 1983, p. 137, and letter 852. Bernard was in Paris from September to December 1889. ...
in translation:
...erate drawing. If that will make me more like Bernard or Gauguin, I can’t do anything about it. Bu...
Is Gauguin back, and what’s Bernard doing?
... and the very flowers you speak of sometimes. Bernard really has found perfect things in there. Anyw...
817 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Le Pouldu, between about Sunday, 10 and Wednesday, 13 November 1889.
in note 4:
Apparently Gauguin did not know that Bernard had returned to Paris. See letter 807, n. 9.
in note 14:
With regard to Bernard’s military service, see letter 575, n. 8.
in note 10:
...ine Art). Ill. 101. Gauguin wrote about it to Bernard: ‘I’m keeping this canvas, pointless to sh...
in translation:
...ted from everything – Laval is in Paris – Bernard in St-Briac. His father has totally forbidden ...
Bernard writes to me sometimes; he has greatly changed for the better, and as an artist he continues ...
Bernard’s military service has been put back a year (for health).
819 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 16 November 1889.
in note 3:
Emile Bernard, The annunciation, 1889 (private collection). Ill. 2309. See Luthi 1982, pp. 36-37, cat...
in translation:
.... You would certainly like it. I’ve been to Bernard’s this week, and he showed me what he has do...
820 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 19 November 1889.
in note 9:
For Bernard’s Christ in the Garden of Olives, see letter 819, n. 4.
in note 19:
...that he give one of the Berceuse paintings to Bernard. The latter is in fact known to have had one i...
in note 18:
For Bernard’s portrait Bernard’s grandmother, see letter 655, n. 3.
in note 10:
Van Gogh had written this to Bernard in June 1888; see letter 632.
in translation:
Bernard also wrote to me, complaining about a heap of things while resigning himself like the good b...
...e, a croquis of which he sent me. Then as for Bernard’s, he promises me a photograph of it, I don�...
...l interpretations. I said that Rembrandt and Delacroix had done this admirably, that I liked that ev...
Bernard speaks to me of an exchange, you’re quite free to deal with this with him if he wishes and...
822 To Emile Bernard. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in note 9:
...h) that Gauguin gave in the autumn of 1888 of Bernard’s painting Red poplars, 1887 (private collec...
in note 8:
Here Bernard placed another footnote: ‘The exactitude of the description shows how much Gauguin had...
in note 7:
...h) that Gauguin gave in the autumn of 1888 of Bernard’s painting Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour, ...
in note 6:
For Bernard’s Breton women in the meadow, see letter 712, n. 4. Bernard himself claimed that this w...
in note 5:
For Bernard’s The annunciation, see letter 819, n. 3.
in note 3:
... shepherds , 1889 (private collection), which Bernard had recently painted. Ill. 2308. See Luthi 198...
in note 2:
Theo had written about Bernard’s paintings The annunciation and Christ in the Garden of Olives. See...
in note 1:
It is apparent from letter 827 that Bernard had sent six photographs of recent paintings, four of whi...
in note 11:
Emile Bernard’s Christ meeting his mother (private collection). Ill. 2301. It does not date from 18...
in note 10:
For Bernard’s Christ in the Garden of Olives, see letter 819, n. 4. Bernard also sent a photograph ...
in translation:
My dear friend Bernard,
in note 21:
...this merely as an example; as far as we know, Bernard did not paint the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5...
823 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in note 4:
...letter to Gauguin is not known; the letter to Bernard is letter 822. Bernard had sent photographs no...
in note 3:
...rist in the Garden of Olives; see letter 817. Bernard, too, had recently painted a Christ in the Gar...
in translation:
...hing from the Bible – and I’ve written to Bernard, and also to Gauguin, that I believed that thi...
...to see the studies from nature by Gauguin and Bernard, the latter tells me of portraits which doubtl...
...at present what can one do when one sees that Bernard, for example, is always put under pressure, pr...
825 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 8 December 1889.
in note 9:
In the summer of 1889, Bernard had prepared a short article about Van Gogh for the same magazine and ...
in translation:
...who did them is a real artist. That friend of Bernard’s called Aurier also came to my place, the o...
827 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 December 1889.
in note 19:
For Bernard’s Breton women in the meadow, see letter 712, n. 4.
in note 18:
Bernard had turned twenty-one on 28 April.
in translation:
...untryside are returning to Paris. You ask who Bernard is – he’s a young painter – he’s twent...
...excellent thing of his which I exchanged with Bernard for a canvas of mine. It’s the portrait of h...
...ight of the world. If you wanted I could tell Bernard to do your portrait when you’re in Paris, he...
...self, my calculations end up at broken tones. Bernard has parents who grudgingly house and feed him,...
in note 26:
Bernard said he would like to have one of the Berceuse paintings; see letter 820.
in note 22:
Letter 822 reveals that Bernard had in any case sent photographs of his paintings Christ in the Ga...
in note 21:
For Bernard’s portrait Bernard’s grandmother, see letter 655, n. 3. Van Gogh received it in excha...
829 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 19 December 1889.
in translation:
Give my kind regards to Isaäcson if you see him, and to Bernard.
841 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Monday, 20 January 1890.
in note 8:
...etter 815). Perhaps he thought the same about Bernard, as suggested both by his remark earlier in th...
in note 7:
...ough their correspondence had come to a halt, Bernard still appeared to be interested in Van Gogh’...
in translation:
Have you met Emile Bernard now – I’d very much like him to come and see some of my canvases one o...
843 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 22 January 1890.
in note 4:
...er nice, in any case very modest – not like Bernard, whom Mien met once. He’s coming again Wedne...
852 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 9 February 1890.
in note 9:
...sterdam. In mid-October 1890 Gauguin wrote to Bernard that De Haan’s problems with his family had ...
858 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 19 March 1890.
in translation:
... that’s all we were hoping for. Next Sunday Bernard and Aurier are to come and see your latest c...
859 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, on or about Thursday, 20 March 1890.
in translation:
I’ve talked at length about it with Aurier, Bernard and many others. All send you their compliments...
863 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 29 April 1890.
in note 8:
..., and that F 540 / JH 1892 came into the possession of Bernard. See Feilchenfeldt 2005, pp. 118-119.
in translation:
...them that pains me more than he knows. How is Bernard? Since there are duplicates of some canvases, ...
RM20 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Auvers-sur-Oise, Saturday, 24 May 1890.
in translation:
...�� I’m not talking about my own – but the Bernard, Prévost, Russell, Guillaumin, Jeannin canvas...
884 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, on or about Friday, 13 June 1890.
in note 3:
Gauguin also tried to interest Bernard in his plan (which he never carried out) to settle in Madagasc...

top

12 essay items found

Correspondents / Artist friends
in correspondents_3:
... from Van Rappard) and the French painters Emile Bernard (22 letters from Van Gogh) and Paul Gauguin...
...friends with the young avant-garde artists Emile Bernard, Louis Anquetin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautr...
...y mail for an exchange of self-portraits with Bernard and Gauguin, who were in Pont-Aven in Brittany...
...ogh’s friendship and correspondence with Emile Bernard were in some way comparable to those with V...
See Van Gogh 2007 for a detailed examination of the friendship and correspondence with Bernard.
Writing about their meeting in 1890, Bernard said that he saw Van Gogh ‘for the first time in Cormo...
...e dating of Van Gogh’s time with Cormon and Bernard’s remarks about it see Van Tilborgh 2007. Ju...
...’ consisted of Guillaumin, Seurat, Gauguin, Bernard, Anquetin, Angrand, Toulouse-Lautrec, Signac, ...
On Bernard’s influence on Van Gogh’s painting in the Paris period see cat. Amsterdam 2011. For a ...
...f their epistolary contacts also emerges from Bernard’s characterization: ‘I replied to him no l...
...s any change in his friendly feelings towards Bernard. After that break of almost a year the corresp...
...en Van Gogh returned to the north in May 1890 Bernard was not in Paris, so they were unable to meet ...
...fferent in tone from those to Van Rappard and Bernard. They are less direct, more formal, and emanat...
...ch when Van Gogh left Paris, unlike that with Bernard. Gauguin went to Brittany at the end of Januar...
Letter 683. He meant the winter of 1887-1888. Bernard himself wrote that he first met Gauguin in Pont...
...rio only came into being, at a distance, when Bernard called on Gauguin in Pont-Aven on Van Gogh’s...
Bernard’s Self-portrait with portrait of Gauguin, and Gauguin’s Self-portrait with portrait of Be...
...Gogh died three weeks later. Gauguin wrote to Bernard: ‘However sad one is at this death, I do not...
Correspondents / Family members
in correspondents_2:
... to pair her off with Joseph Isaäcson and Emile Bernard.On this see letters 673, 674, 815 and 843. ...
...and 843. Cf. also letters 827 and 841, in which Vincent writes at length about Bernard to Willemien.
...rlier uncompromising stance in his letters to Bernard of the same period, but he dropped his guard w...
Publication history / A flood of supplementary publications
in publications_4:
...in 1924 and 1928 respectively. The letters to Bernard, published by Vollard in 1911, appeared in Ger...
..., letters from and to people other than Theo, Bernard and Van Rappard gradually began to surface. Th...
...does not include the publications of the letters to Theo, Bernard and Van Rappard already discussed.
The English translation of the letters to Bernard, edited by Douglas Cooper, appeared in 1938. They w...
... Angeles, reveal that he got in touch with Emile Bernard when he was preparing his edition. Although...
...hon van Rappard, the Dutch counterpart to the Bernard letters, under the title Letters to an artist....
Correspondents / Preservation of the letters
in correspondents_4:
... we have all of them? And why have those from Bernard vanished? Although Vincent told Theo in Septem...
...what we now have, and all the letters from Emile Bernard to Van Gogh have to be considered lost. The...
... arriving in Arles Van Gogh wrote not only to Bernard but to another artist friend in Paris, Henri d...
The letter to Bernard is 587; Van Gogh’s letter to Toulouse-Lautrec has not survived.
Publication history / The early publications of the letters
in publications_2:
...rest in modern art.Aurier 1890, pp. 24-29. Emile Bernard said that he had shown Aurier the letters V...
Roland Holst also quoted two passages from Bernard’s article on Van Gogh in Les hommes d’aujourd�...
...e series of extracts from the letters that Emile Bernard published in the Mercure de France from Apr...
...t of Brieven aan zijn broeder in 1924. it was Bernard who shouldered Theo van Gogh’s task in Franc...
Bernard first published on Van Gogh in 1891, in the series Les hommes d’aujourd’hui (‘Men of To...
Bernard 1891. On Bernard’s efforts in greater detail: Van Gogh 2007, Introduction.
See Account book 2002, pp. 24-25; in 1891 Bernard also had photographs taken of twelve of Van Gogh’...
Bernard was one of those who appreciated early on that the letters could help make Van Gogh’s artis...
Mercure de France 4 (April 1893), p. 329. Bernard’s introductions to this series and to the series ...
Bernard devoted a great deal of time and thought to the modest editing he had to do for the Mercure p...
...y 1893), p. 20. In the Vollard edition (1911) Bernard decided on a different solution: there he repr...
Bernard selected five main themes from the correspondence: seventeenth-century Dutch painting, new pa...
... tone in some of the letters is also avoided. Bernard did dare to include the following line: ‘Pai...
The letters to Bernard were followed by excerpts from letters to Theo: nine instalments in the period...
...n, for instance, published several letters to Bernard in the Danish magazine Politiken.Exhib. cat. C...
Van Gogh’s letters to Emile Bernard, an artist’s letters in the true sense, are a sampler of Van ...
...m the letters to Theo and from the letters to Bernard that had appeared in the Mercure de France. En...
Publication history / The first standard editions
in publications_3:
In 1893 Emile Bernard embarked on the Mercure series of extracts from the letters Van Gogh had writte...
...ted on Japanese paper. The cover, designed by Bernard, bears a simple ornament, the title and the pu...
Bernard wrote in his introduction that he was reproducing the letters in full, including the peculiar...
...egraaf too? The Rev. ter Haar read letters to Bernard there. Do you want that second issue of the Me...
Publication history / The first collected edition of 1952-1954 and thereafter
in publications_5:
...tters to one correspondent (Van Gogh to Theo, Bernard and Van Rappard, Theo to Vincent) or a miscell...
...llections (letters to his brother Theo, to Emile Bernard and to Van Rappard). Some of them have neve...
...o to Vincent and a few from other correspondents like Van Rappard, Bernard, Wil, Signac and Russell.
...ogh likewise recorded something of his thought processes in the introduction to the Bernard letters:
...English translation of Vincent’s letters to Bernard, edited by Douglas Lord [i.e. Douglas Cooper],...
In the case of the Bernard letters, V.W. van Gogh had at least provided a concise explanation, but wh...
...s letters to Van Rappard, to Willemien and to Bernard, and Theo’s letters to Vincent; and reproduc...
Douglas Cooper’s English edition of the Bernard letters in 1938 was the first example of a scholarl...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
in letter_writer_2:
... artist friends like Van Rappard, Gauguin and Bernard as well – provide us with an incredible amou...
...om Arles, Van Gogh conducted a debate with Emile Bernard about the direction modern painting should ...
...referred. The correspondence with Gauguin and Bernard is of the utmost importance in the later years...
It is therefore most regrettable that Bernard’s side of the correspondence has not survived, for it...
... example of this is his reaction to a poem by Bernard about the prostitutes in Paris, to which he ob...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Language and spelling
in letter_writer_3:
...kes.See Van der Veen 2002, esp. pp. 71-73. Emile Bernard preferred to overlook these imperfections, ...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
in letter_writer_4:
For Emile Bernard, with whom he had shared a taste of bohemian life in Paris, he adopted a bluff tone...
...t he felt that his own letters to Gauguin and Bernard fitted in that category to a certain extent, a...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Manuscripts
in letter_writer_5:
...underlined in pencil and the names ‘Gauguin Bernard’ written in the margin. It is impossible to ...
...and typesetting instructions on the letter to Bernard of 7 June 1888 (622), which relate to the incl...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Sketches
in letter_writer_6:
...n Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in June 1888 in a letter to Bernard.Letters 398 and 622 respectively.

top

2 other items found

Overview of all the letters
in overview:
to Emile Bernard, French artist whom Van Gogh met in Paris
Chronology
in 1888:
15-20 July @Sends 15 drawings to Bernard, and receives drawings in exchange (641, 643, 650).
...gue (699). @Vincent sends 2 paintings to Bernard and Gauguin, who are in Pont-Aven, and adds an...
... who are in Pont-Aven, and adds another 5 for Bernard, Charles Laval, Hanri Moret and Ernest de Cham...
in 1887:
Autumn Works with Bernard at the latter’s studio in Asnières.
..., 43 avenue de Clichy, with work by Anquetin, Bernard, Arnold Koning, Toulouse-Lautrec and himself. ...
in 1886:
...Clichy, where he meets John Peter Russell, Emile Bernard, Louis Anquetin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautr...
...8). Beginning of his friendship with Emile Bernard after meeting him again in Tanguy’s shop....
...n in Tanguy’s shop. Gets to know Louis Anquetin through Bernard. Also meets Charles Angrand (570).

top

129 letters, 12 essay items and 2 other items found

129 letters found

12 essay items found

2 other items found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters