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Van Gogh Omni-Gatherum
Artists living during VG's lifetime (1853-1890):
Corot 1796 - 1875 Delacroix 1798 - 1863 Millet 1814 - 1875 Courbet 1819 - 1877 Pissarro 1830 - 1903
Manet 1832 - 1883 Degas 1834 - 1917 Whistler 1834 - 1903 Cézanne 1839 - 1906 Monet 1840 - 1926
Renoir 1841-1919 Morisot 1841-1895 Eakins 1844-1916 Rousseau 1844-1903 Gauguin 1848 - 1903
Sargent 1856-1925 Seurat 1859-1891 Klimt 1862-1918 Munch 1863-1944 Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901
Picasso 1881-1973 O'Keeffe 1887-1986      
PE03257A.gif (4096 bytes)Miscellaneous Facts:
Color - His favorite color was yellow.  And he attributed colors with certain traits:  Yellow was triumph and love, carmine was a spiritual color, cobalt was divine, and red & green were terrible human passions (think of this when you view his paintings at one of the links listed, especially The Night Café).
His actual "artist" career spanned only 10 years.  In that time, he produced 1100 drawings and almost 900 paintings!
The Potato Eaters is considered his first masterpiece and was painted in April 1885, just over five years before he died.
He had a "favorite mirror" that he treasured and used for his self-portraits and even had it transported with his paintings during his moves.
He commented about The Bedroom, October 1888, " I think that the bedroom was the best".  He wanted to touch it up, but Theo advised him against doing so.   He thought his style had become more powerful, saying "I think the workmanship is more virile and simple.  No stippling, no hatching, nothing, only flat colours in harmony."  He produced two copies of this painting, both in September 1889.
VG has been "post-diagnosed" as having suffered from:  epilepsy, schizophrenia, Meniere's disease (an inner ear disorder), acute intermittent porphyria (a liver condition), dementia, sunstroke, syphilis, or manic depression.  There is no confirmation of any diagnosis.   Absinthe abuse may have exacerbated any condition.
Sunflowers sold in 1987 for $39.9 million; Irises sold in 1988 for $53.9 million; Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold in 1890 for $82.50 million;  a small self-portrait sold in 1998 for $71.5 million.  It is expected that a Van Gogh painting will be the first painting to sell for $100 million!
He used a formula "Michel's secret" (derived from Georges Michel) for the correct measurements of a landscape, so the foreground is correctly proportional  to the background and "having an accurate sense of the directions taken by lines seen in perspective".
His brother Theo died six months after him.
In 1936, a retrospective exhibition of VG's works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York drew crowds that broke all attendance records, 123,000 people - Van Gogh's Van Gogh is expected to bring 900,000, not counting the number of people who saw the East Coast or European exhibits!

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