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INTOLERANCE OF AMBIGUITY #1204_1/ 2004
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Paintings: Landscape | | Medium: | Acrylic on stretched canvas | | Size (inches): | 12 x 12 | | Size (mm): | 305 x 305 | | Catalog #: | PA_061 | | Description: | Signed, titled, date, copyright in magic ink on the reverse.
Dear Theo,
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You must not imagine that I have earned anything by doing that work for Hermans; the first day I got two bills for the stretchers, canvases and a number of tubes, amounting to more than I had received from him to pay for them. I told him that I did not want these bills to remain unpaid, and asked him if he wanted to have them put in his name or if he would pay me something in advance. Oh no, he said, let it wait, they need not be paid at once.
I said, Yes, they must be paid at once. Then he gave me 25 guilders.
Then came all my other expenses for models, not counting my time, work, etc.; but since then I have not seen any of his money, nor have I asked for it. On the contrary, because my work pleased him from first to last, I consider myself already sufficiently paid, if need be. Besides, the pictures remain my property, and I must judge for myself what I am willing to lay out for them. But enough of this, since those stretchers, canvases, etc., I have had at least 20 guilders' worth of expenses, perhaps even more, and have not even got them back. But the man is satisfied and pleased with me. Is it then good policy to ask for money? One must be very careful in this, in my opinion, just when people are satisfied, one must lower the price rather than raise it. Especially when, after all, the sum is not so considerable that receiving it or not makes that much difference. If I succeed, it will perhaps be for the very reason that I work more cheaply than others, and make it easy for the art lovers.
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Yours sincerely,
Vincent
-Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (extract) / Nuenen, October 1884.
At this time, Vincent was 31 year old.
Source:
Vincent van Gogh. Letter to Theo van Gogh. Written October 1884 in Nuenen. Translated by Mrs. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, edited by Robert Harrison, published in The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, Publisher: Bulfinch, 1991, number 381.
URL: http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/14/381.htm.
This letter may be freely used, in accordance with the Creative Commons license).
-webexhibits.org/vangogh/
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