Van Gogh - UL or not?

[Frank Raymond Michaels]

john...@sydney.dialix.oz.au wrote:

>Hi,

>This is one of those things that sound like an Urban Legend but I'm not
>sure/can't find proof. It is, anyway, a total clichŽ that people say
>without thinking and it annoys me:

> "Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime."

According to the Van Gogh website at
<http://www.ccn.cs.dal.ca/~ag249/VANGOGH.HTML>:
"Dead at 36, Van Gogh was successful in selling just one painting in
his lifetime. The world can only speculate about what this masterful
genius could have produced had he lived."

Evidently the painting was a portrait of Paul Gauguin, sold to Paul
Gauguin (his friend and fellow artist, in they end they quarreled and
he threatened Gauguin with a razor -- this led to the infamous
incident in which he cut off his own ear). His family was well-to-do
and his brother Theo supported him in Paris and tried to help sell his
paintings, but Vincent. Some more sites/cites of interest would be:

http://sunsite.auc.dk/cjackson/gogh/index.html
http://193.2.154.119/peter/vangogh.html (excellent page!)
http://www.ugrad.cs.jhu.edu/~baker/van_gogh.html (long download, lots
of graphics)
http://www.interlog.com/~tbaikie/bio.htm (excellent page, lots of
links!).
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Frank Raymond Michaels ("Got a _Cypresses_ tie, too...")

[jon murray]

Frank Raymond Michaels wrote:
>
> snip

> According to the Van Gogh website at
> <http://www.ccn.cs.dal.ca/~ag249/VANGOGH.HTML>:
> "Dead at 36, Van Gogh was successful in selling just one painting in
> his lifetime. The world can only speculate about what this masterful
> genius could have produced had he lived."

If their research is anything like their prose, I wouldn't trust this.
'Masterful genius' indeed!

Jon

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