Brief 223 van 902 (25%)

vg-223

Een korte blik op Vincents wereld in The Hague met Theo van Gogh .

"This day I have sent to you by bookpost 1 drawing / “ A Root in a dry ground ” _ You just let me know what you think of it. Les Racines is very similar to this one but I can’t send that one neither “Sorrow” in this manner on a roller / the drawings being mounted on cardboard. With regard to this one I hammered it off in a single day / having studied the…"

Personen:
Theo van Gogh
Plaatsen:
The Hague
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  • Source XML: let223.xml
  • Title: To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 2 May 1882.
  • Generated: 2026-01-16T18:45:25Z

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This day I have sent to you by bookpost 1 drawing / “ A Root in a dry ground ” _ You just let me know what you think of it. Les Racines is very similar to this one but I can’t send that one neither “Sorrow” in this manner on a roller / the drawings being mounted on cardboard. With regard to this one I hammered it off in a single day / having studied the same spot and trees for Les racines. So it has been done “tout d’un trait” out of doors & has not even been in my studio. But the paper has been slightly damaged in 2 or 3 places as I worked through it / please have this seen to at once / else it might get worse. I think it wants a grey mount. Good bye, hope to hear of you at y r early convenience. Vincent Tuesday evening This day I have sent to you by book-post 1 drawing, ‘ A root in a dry ground ’. You just let me know what you think of it. Roots is very similar to this one but I can’t sent that one neither ‘Sorrow’ in this manner on a roller, the drawings being mounted on cardboard. With regard to this one I hammered it off in a single day, having studied the same spot and trees for Roots. So it’s been done ‘in one go’ out of doors and hasn’t even been in my studio. But the paper has been slightly damaged in 2 or 3 places as I worked through it, please have this seen to at once, else it might get worse. I think it wants a grey mount. Good bye, hope to hear of you at y r early convenience. Vincent Tuesday evening This drawing is not known. With regard to the title, cf. Isa. 53:2 : ‘As a root out of a dry ground’. Les racines . Study of a tree ( F 933r / JH 142 ). Read: ‘send’. This large version of Sorrow is not known; see letter 222, n. 1. Regarding this advice, probably prompted by reading Edmond and Jules de Goncourt ’s Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre , see letter 216, n. 4.

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