Can you believe possible such luck? The author of The Sunflowers
What a stroke of luck!
As many people do, they bought a second-hand book in a bouquiniste stall located close to the Seine.
As it happens often, people bring home used book and they end in the pile of the "I want to read" books. A pile never-ending, let me add.
One day, after a lot of time from that distant moment in which the couple bought the book, the two noticed that inside there was a letter, from Vincent Van Gogh, to Paul Gaugin!
The letter later was recognized as original and it is now part of the Musee Reattu of Arles enriching a world, the epistolary one of Van Gogh, that it is simply immense; after his death people discovered, being a voracious letter-writer something like 820 letters.
This one follows the traumatic decision of Van Gogh of cutting his own ear, a self-injury punishment he inflicted to himself for who knows which reason and the quick departure from Arles of the same Gaugin after the terrible fact.
Van Gogh started to feel interest for sunflowers starting in 1888, when he left Provence for Arles; he is the artist more associated at this friendly, warm summer-flowers.
He was quick when he painted. He completed a painting of Sunflowers in just a week. He fell fascinated by sunflowers once in Paris in 1886.
That years were the most illuminating, most precious, more perfect ones for this artist.
Van Gogh didn't choose of portraying a sophisticated life; he went in particular for common people, countrysides, the work of peasants; he was interested to capture the colors of life seen and read examining the daily life.
Van Gogh composed various sunflowers paintings and in this book the author will drive us, thanks to a historical and artistic meticulous reconstruction, into the same history of these paintings and their destiny once bought.
Beautiful. If you love art, this book is for you!
Highly recommended.
Anna Maria Polidori
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