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LOT 270:
[Russian Edition] Starry Night: Van Gogh at the Asylum
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Sold for: 550p
Start price:
100
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Estimated price :
700p - 900p
Buyer's Premium: 15%
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[Russian Edition] Starry Night: Van Gogh at the Asylum
Moscow, Mann, Ivanov, Ferber, 2019
224 pp., illustrations, 20.5 by 26 cm
In Publisher's hardcover in excellent condition.
This book is an illustrated story of Van Gogh's stay in the asylum (asylum for the mentally ill) Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near the city of Saint-Remy-de-Provence in southeastern France. The artist came here after he cut off his ear - such a terrible episode ended his joint work with Paul Gauguin. Van Gogh lived in the hospital for 374 days - from May 8, 1889, to May 16, 1890. Here the master has created a series of masterpieces - cypresses, wheat fields, olive groves, and sunsets. The artist wrote little about this secluded place in letters to his brother, so the book is valuable for describing previously unknown details of life and work.
Martin Bailey is one of the few modern Van Gogh specialists who managed to visit the clinic and see with his own eyes where the artist lived. And the photographs taken by the author are the first color photographs of the clinic in the literature about Van Gogh. The author talks about the peculiarities of the paintings painted by Van Gogh in this place, connects them with biographical facts and the peculiarities of the artist's work.
Also recently it became known that the first drawing of "Starry Night" (created by Van Gogh for his family, in order to share his favourite work as soon as possible) was kept in Russia for a long time. Martin Bailey saw the drawing and dedicated one of the chapters of the book to its history.
Richly illustrated. Russian Edition.
