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- Published: 14 October 1997
- ISBN: 9780140446746
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 560
- RRP: $30.00
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
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A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for love and his involvement in humanitarian causes.
- Published: 14 October 1997
- ISBN: 9780140446746
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 560
- RRP: $30.00
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About the author
Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work has had far-reaching influence on 20th-century art and beyond. Born to upper middle-class parents, he trained to become a pastor, and did not start painting until his twenties, travelling to The Hague, London, Paris and, famously, Arles. Most of his best-known works were completed during the last two years of his life. Van Gogh suffered from poor mental health and spent over a year in an asylum. On 27 July 1890, he shot himself at the scene of his last painting, the foreboding Cornfields with Flight of Birds. He died two days later.