Vincent van Gogh : the drawings
/ Colta Feller Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Marije Vellekoop
- New Haven : Yale University Press , 2005
- 380 p. illus. ; 29 cm
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1 July - 18 September 2005 ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 12 October - 31 December 2005
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) believed that drawing was “the root of everything.” A self-taught artist, he succeeded, between 1881 and 1890, in developing an inimitable graphic style. This book traces the artist’s successive triumphs as a draftsman, first in the Netherlands and later in France, highlighting the diversity of his technical invention and the striking continuity of his vision.