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PSYCHEDELIA #0704_2/ 2004
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Paintings: Landscape | | Medium: | Acrylic on non-stretched canvas | | Size (inches): | 44 x 38.5 | | Size (mm): | 1118 x 978 | | Catalog #: | PA_042 | | Description: | Signed, titled, date, copyright in magic ink on the reverse.
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
-Carl G. Jung
To the big-city high-powered galleries demanding exclusivity, my argument is: if you want to be the only agent who sells my work, you must guarantee me a minimum annual income. So far, no one has been willing to do that.
-Eleanor Blair
Perhaps it would be easier to get a few dealers and collectors to agree to buy the impressionist paintings than to get the artists to agree to share the price of their paintings. Nevertheless, the artists couldn't do better than to get together, and give over to the association, and share the proceeds of the sales, so that the society could at least guarantee its members a chance to live and to work.If de Gas [Degas], Claude Monet, Renoir, Sisley and C. Pissarro took the initiative, saying, “Look here, we 5 give 10 paintings each (or rather we each give to the value of 10,000 Frs. to be estimated by expert members such as Tersteeg and yourself, co-opted by the Society, said experts likewise to put in capital in the form of paintings) and we further undertake to hand over every year pictures to the value of… “And we invite you others, Guillaumin, Seurat, Gauguin, etc., etc., to join with us (your paintings to undergo the same expert evaluation).” Thus the great impressionists of the Grand Boulevard, while giving pictures which would become general property, would keep their prestige, and the others could no longer reproach them with keeping to themselves the advantages of a reputation no doubt acquired primarily through their personal efforts and individual genius, but all the same a reputation that is growing, buttressed and actually maintained by the paintings of a whole battalion of artists who have been working in perpetual poverty. Anyway, it is to be hoped that it will come off, and that Tersteeg and you will become expert members (with Portier, perhaps?).
-Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (extract), Arles, 10 March 1888.
At this time, Vincent was 34 year old.
Source:
Vincent van Gogh. Letter to Theo van Gogh. Written 10 March 1888 in Arles. Translated by Robert Harrison, edited by Robert Harrison, published in Letters of Vincent van Gogh, 1886 - 1890. Publisher: Scolar Press, 1977, number 468.
URL: http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/468.htm.
This letter may be freely used, in accordance with the Creative Commons license.
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