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| "What impassions me most – much, much more than all the rest of my métier – is the portrait, the modern
portrait," Vincent wrote to his younger sister in early June 1890, a month before his death. "I should like – you see,
I'm far from saying that I can, but I'm going to try anyway – I should like to do portraits which will appear as
revelations to people in a hundred years' time." |
| Portrait of Trabuc, an Attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital, 1889, 61 x 46 cm |
Self-Portrait, 1889, 57 x 42 cm |
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 Vincent van Gogh 1886-1888 Vincent was rejected at art school but was offered a place in the
beginner’s class, he turns that down, and moves in with his brother Theo who introduces Vincent to Monet,
Renoir, Pissarro, and Degas. Seeing their paintings influences Vincent to use brighter colours. In the
winter van Gogh meets Paul and Pere Tanguy, both live a big
influence on Vincent in the future. 1887 Exhibits in the Cafe du Tambourine along with , Bernard and
Toulouse-Lautrec. While in Paris Vincent paints over 200 pictures in the two years he lived their with his
Brother at the Rue Lepic adjacent to Boulevard De Clichy, this is called the artist quarter's, because
along here lived: -
Dagas at No
6
Renoir
No 11
John Russell No
73
Cormon No
104
Seurat
No 128
Signac
No 130
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