The Yellow House
Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
$38.72
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
19 July 2007
Summary
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 say…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141016733 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141016736 |
| Author: | Martin Gayford |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 19 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 25mm |
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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 *
About The Author
Martin Gayford
Martin Gayford has been Art Critic of the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph, and Chief European Art Critic for Bloomberg. Among his publications are The Penguin Book of Art Writing, of which he was co-editor, and contributions to many catalogues for exhibitions at Tate, the Hayward Gallery, the Courtauld Galleries, and the Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris. Martin Gayford lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children.
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