The Yellow House
  • Published: 29 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141938356
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

The Yellow House

Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

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A fascinating, atmospheric account of an intense period in the life of the world's most popular painter.

Two artistic giants. One small house.

From October to December 1888 a pair of largely unknown artists lived under one roof in the French provincial town of Arles. Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh ate, drank, talked, argued, slept and painted in one of the most intense and astonishing creative outpourings in history. Yet as the weeks passed Van Gogh buckled under the strain, fought with his companion and committed an act of violence on himself that prompted Gauguin to flee without saying goodbye to his friend.

The Yellow House is an intimate portrait of their time together as well as a subtle exploration of a fragile friendship, art, madness, genius and the shocking act of self-mutilation that the world has sought to explain ever since.
  • Published: 29 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141938356
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
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About the author

Martin Gayford

Martin Gayford studied philosophy at Cambridge and art history at the Courtauld Institute. He is the art critic of the Spectator, and contributes regularly to the Daily Telegraph, Modern Painters and Harpers & Queen. He is married, with two children, and lives in Cambridge. His latest book is The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles.

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Praise for The Yellow House

A drily witty, original and profoundly absorbing book

Independent

A wonderfully perceptive, revealing and touching book

Sunday Telegraph

A story of such fascination on so many levels . . . Martin Gayford tells it vividly, intelligently and intelligibly

Literary Review

Gayford's fascinating depiction of the Odd Couple of art history is both moving and riveting

Daily Mail

Gayford has reconstructed these tumultuous weeks . . . the reader lives them day by day, almost minute by minute. Delightful, utterly fascinating

Independent on Sunday

Masterly . . . a wonderfully alert and moving portrait

Mail on Sunday

Thoughtful and excellently unsensational . . . with clever flashbacks and pertinent historical asides

Sunday Times

Remarkable, erudite and thoroughly readable. Gayford has managed to piece together as much as we ever might in the most convincing way possible

Scotland on Sunday

A gripping read, and an art historical thriller

Country Life