6 letters found

1. 620 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 5 June 1888.

   in note 6:

   ...his influential book L’Art japonais (1883). On Hokusai he wrote: ‘When Hokousaï draws an engraving, he...

2. 640 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.

   in note 2:

   ...Hokusai’s series of colour woodcuts Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji (c. 1831), and/or the second series in black and white A hundred views of Mount Fuji (1833-1834), which were published in three albums. There is a copy of the second album in the estate, but it is not known whether Theo and Vincent bought it or it came into the collection later (inv. no. n561). See cat. Amsterdam 1991, p. 316. Hokusai produced countless genre scenes, so it is not possible to tell which ones Van Gogh means here...

3. 642 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.

   in note 1:

   See letter 640, n. 2, for the Hokusai prints.

4. 652 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.

   in translation:

   ...coming and going, carrying the cargo ashore. It was pure Hokusai. It was too late to do it, but one...

5. 676 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 8 September 1888.

   in translation:

   ...one could be so terrifying with blue and green’. Hokusai makes you cry out the same thing — but...

   in note 16:

   ...to have (see letter 640). Hokusai made at least three versions of this composition, including The underwave off Kanagawa, c. 1831 (Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet). Ill. 2241. See Hokusai and his school. Japanese...

6. 686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.

   in translation:

   ...of all the artists who sketch from life — Hokusai, Daumier, for me this figure is never what the...

   ...the blade of grass, and the carnations, and the Hokusai admirable. But whatever one may say, for me...

   in note 11:

   ...double page with Crabs in seaweed and Figures in a shower of rain (‘Two compositions taken from the Gouashiki, a series of 3 volumes by Hokusaï signed Taïto, one of several brush names used by Hokusaï’) (Deux compositions tirées du Gouashiki, série de 3 volumes par Hokusaï signée Taïto, l’un des nombreux noms de pinceau adoptés par Hokusaï). Ill. 2253. See also the print Portrait of Ousoukoumo: letter 768, n. 19.

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1. Correspondents / Artist friends

   ...writes, and with the same fluency as would a Hokusai or an Utamaro’. They wrote to each other...

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