The story of Vincent and the postman is a hidden gem. A lesser known tale that hasn’t been told very often. And when I discovered it, I immediately fell in love with it. Because suddenly, it made so much sense why Vincent painted this man so often (6 times), and why he painted him with so much flourish.
00:00 I thought I knew Van Gogh
01:14 Van Gogh crash course
02:32 I found a story
03:34 The first portraits
06:18 The Roulin family
06:48 La Berceuse
08:12 The breakdown
10:36 The later portraits
13:29 Why Roulin was important
SOURCES
- Vincent van Gogh: the Letters, online archive, vangoghletters.org
- The Vincent Van Gogh Atlas, Nienke Denekamp & René Van Blerk, Rubinstein, Van Gogh Museum
- The Yellow House, Martin Gayford, 2007, Penguin Books
- Van Gogh, The Complete Paintings, 1990, Taschen
- Varnedoe, Kirk. “Joseph Roulin.” MoMA, vol. 4, no. 2, 2001, pp. 10-13. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4420555.
- Miller, Stacy, et al. “Instructional Resources: Painting.” Art Education, vol. 42, no. 5, 1989, pp. 25-44. JSTOR, doi.org/10.2307/3193175
- “Museum News.” MoMA, vol. 2, no. 2, 1989, pp. 3-3. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4381087.
- The VGGallery, www.vggallery.com/misc/roulin/main.htm
- Podcast excerpt: "Vincent van Gogh - In Our Time: Culture", BBC Radio 4
PAINTINGS by Van Gogh
Drawing of “Het Steen” in Antwerp, 1886
Self Portrait With Glass, 1887, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
Self Portrait, 1887, Art Institute of Chicago
Café Table with Absinth, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
Café Terrace at Night, 1888, Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo
Prisoners’ Round, after Gustave Doré, Pushkin Museum Moscow
Almond Blossom, 1890, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
Starry Night, 1889, MoMa New York
Oleanders, 1888, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Bedroom, 1888, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
At Eternity’s Gate, 1890, Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo
Irises, 1890, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
Boulevard de Clichy, 1887, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
Wheat Field with Crows, 1890, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
The Potato Eaters, 1885, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
The Old Tower at Dusk, 1884, Private Collection
Corner in Voyer-d’Argenson Park, 1887, Yale University Art Gallery
Self Portrait as a Painter, 1888, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
Self Portrait, 1889, Musée d’Orsay
Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, 1888, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, 1888, Detroit Institute of Arts
Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, 1888, Kunstmuseum Winterthur
Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, 1889, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, 1889, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, 1889, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Snowy Landscape with Arles in the Background, 1888, private collection
Landscape with Snow, 1888, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York
Almond Blossoms, 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
The Langlois Bridge at Arles, 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
The Night Café, 1888, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Mother Roulin with her Baby, 1888, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portrait of Armand Roulin, 1888, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Portrait of Camille Roulin, 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Portrait of Madame Augustine Roulin, 1888, Private collection
Baby Marcelle Roulin, 1888, Private collection
La Berceuse, 1888, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
The Schoolboy (Camille Roulin), 1888, Sao Paolo Museum of Art
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889, Courtauld Gallery London
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, 1889, Kunsthaus Zürich
La Berceuse, 1889, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
La Berceuse, 1889, Art Institute of Chicago
La Berceuse, 1889, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
La Berceuse, 1889, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Self-Portrait, 1889, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Wheat Field with Cypresses, National Gallery, London
Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses, 1890, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Ward in the Hospital in Arles, 1889, private collection
Garden of the Hospital in Arles, 1889, private collection
OTHER PAINTINGS
Night Café, Arles, Paul Gauguin, 1888, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Self-Portrait with Portrait of Emile Bernard, Paul Gauguin, 1888, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
MUSIC
Piano Spirals, Boris Skalsky, licensed through Storyblocks
Prescient, Howard Harper Barnes, Licensed through Epidemic Sounds
Salvation, Johannes Bornlof, Licensed through Epidemic Sounds
Valiant, Luar, / luarbeats
Puzzle of Complexity, Jo Wandrini, licensed through Epidemic Sounds
In the Field, Raighes Factory, licensed through Storyblocks
Sweet Lullabies, Mahlert, licensed through Epidemic Sounds
Dying Wish, Humans Win, licensed through Storyblocks
31 июл 2024
