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Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc.
Maps copyright 2011 by David Lindroth, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House,
an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
R ANDOM H OUSE and colophon are
registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Published in the United Kingdom by Profile Books, London.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Ton de Brouwer: Excerpts from Van Gogh en Nuenen, 2nd edition, by
Ton de Brouwer (Venio, Netherlands: Van Spijk, 1998). Reprinted by permission of Ton de Brouwer, founder of Vincente at Nuenen, www.vgvn.nl.
Fuller Technical Publications: Excerpts from Vincent and Theo van Gogh:A Dual Biography by Jan Hulsker, edited by James M. Miller (Ann Arbor, MI: Fuller Technical Publications, 1990). Reprinted by permission of Fuller Technical Publications.
Hachette Book Group: Excerpts from The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, translated by Johanna Bonger, originally published by The New York Graphic Society and subsequently published by Little, Brown & Co. (second edition, 1978, third printing, 1988). Reprinted by permission of Hachette Book Group.
Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.: Excerpts from Van Gogh: A Retrospective, edited by Susan A. Stein (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1986). Reprinted by permission of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 300 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010, www.rizzoliusa.com.
Thames and Hudson Ltd.: Excerpts from Taines Notes on England by Hippolyte Taine, translated by Edward Hyams (London: Thames and Hudson, 1957). Reprinted by permission of Thames and Hudson Ltd., London.
Ken Wilkie: Excerpts from In Search of Van Gogh by Ken Wilkie (Roseville, CA: Prima Books, 1991). Quotes within the text attributed by Enid Dove-Meadows, Piet van Hoorn, Baroness Bonger, and Madame Baize were made to Ken Wilkie. Reprinted by permission of Ken Wilkie.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Naifeh, Steven (Steven W.)
Van Gogh: The Life/Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.
pages cm
eISBN: 978-1-58836-047-2
1. Gogh, Vincent van, 18531890. 2. ArtistsNetherlandsBiography. 3. Gogh, Vincent van, 18531890.Psychology.
I. Smith, Gregory White. II. Title.
N6953.G3N35 2011
759.9492dc22
[B] 2010053005
www.atrandom.com
Frontispiece: John Peter Russell, Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, 1886
Endpapers: Vincents Bedroom, October 17, 1888, letter sketch
v3.1_r1
To our mothers,
Marion Naifeh and Kathryn White Smith,
who first showed us the joy of art,
and to all the artists of T HE J UILLIARD S CHOOL ,
who have since brought so much joy into our lives,
this book is gratefully dedicated.
S. N.
G. W. S.
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John Peter Russell, Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, 1886
Self-Portraits, 1887
Garden of a Bathhouse, August 1888
Vincent van Gogh, age 13
Anna Carbentus
The Markt in Zundert
Vincents sisters and brothers: Anna, Theo, Lies, Cor, and Wil
Barn and Farmhouse, February 1864
Theo van Gogh, age 13
Vincent van Gogh on the steps of the Tilburg School
Theodorus (Dorus) van Gogh
Uncle Cent van Gogh
The Zundert Church
H. G. Tersteeg
Goupil Gallery, The Hague
Ursula and Eugenie Loyer
Vicarage and Church at Etten, April 1876
Ary Scheffer, Christus Consolator, 183637
Churches at Petersham and Turnham Green, November 1876
Scheffersplein, the market square in Dordrecht
Rear Admiral Johannes van Gogh (Uncle Jan)
The Cave of Machpelah, May 1877
The Au Charbonnage Caf, November 1878
Marcasse Coal Mine, Pit #7
Miners in the Snow at Dawn, August 1880
Vincent van Gogh, age 18
Anthon Ridder van Rappard
Sower (after Millet), April 1881
Anthon van Rappard, The Passievaart Near Seppe (Landscape Near Seppe), June 1881
Marsh with Water Lillies, June 1881
Kee Vos-Stricker and son Jan, c. 1881
Windmills Near Dordrecht, August 1881
Donkey and Cart, October 1881
Anton Mauve, 1878
Torn-Up Street with Diggers, April 1882
Woman Sitting on a Basket with Head in Hands, March 1883
Sorrow, April 1882
Carpenters Yard and Laundry, May 1882
Cradle, July 1882
Luke Fildes, Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward, 1874
Hubert von Herkomer, The Last Muster: Sunday at Chelsea Hospital (detail), 1871
Old Man with a Stick, SeptemberNovember 1882, and Old Man in a Tail-Coat, SeptemberDecember 1882
Worn Out, November 1882
Women Miners, November 1882
Soup Distribution in a Public Soup Kitchen, March 1883
Path to the Beach, July 1883
Landscape with Bog-Oak Trunks, October 1883
Landscape in Drenthe, SeptemberOctober 1883
Man Pulling a Harrow, October 1883
Jean-Lon Grme, The Prisoner, 1861
The parsonage in Nuenen
Weaver, 1884
The Kingfisher, March 1883
Pollard Birches, March 1883
Margot Begemann
Jozef Israls, Peasant Family at Table, 1882
Head of a Woman, 188485
The Potato Eaters, April 1885
Lon Lhermitte, La moisson (The Harvest), 1883
Head of a Woman, March 1885
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, soon after completion in 1885
The Old Church Tower at Nuenen, JuneJuly 1885
Still Life with Bible, October 1885
Couple Dancing, December 1885
Plaster room at the Antwerp Academy
Standing Female Nude (Seen from the Side), January 1886
Head of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette, JanuaryFebruary 1886
Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, 1887
Self-Portrait, 1887; Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat, 188687; and Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, 1887
Atelier of Fernand Cormon (c. 1885)
John Peter Russell, Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, 1886
Jean-Baptiste Corot, Agostina, 1866
Johanna Bonger, 1888
Lucien Pissarro, Vincent and Theo van Gogh, 1887
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Portrait of mile Bernard, 1886
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Portrait of Vincent van Gogh
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