21 letters found

1. 710 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 22 October 1888.

   in translation:

   ...ould do such a thing, or if Gauguin and I together could do such things that Seurat would join us!

   ... about it, I daren’t say any more about this Seurat partnership. First I must try to get to know Ga...

   in note 3:

   Georges Seurat, Models, 1886-1888 (Philadelphia, The Barnes Foundation). Ill. 2234. See letter 669, n...

2. 870 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 11 May 1890.

   in translation:

   ...in that, just as that day we were so struck by Seurat’s canvases, these last days here are once aga...

   in note 6:

   ...ure for Arles, on 19 February 1888, he and Theo had visited Seurat’s studio in Paris (letter 695).

3. 706 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 17 October 1888.

   in translation:

   With a simplicity à la Seurat.Seurat

4. RM18 Fragment of a letter to Theo van Gogh containing a copy of the poem ‘St Jerome’s love’ by Thomas Moore. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, about November-December 1889.

   in translation:

   ...t if, two years ago, I’d had a calmer temperament like Seurat, for example, I could have resisted.

5. 708 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 19 October 1888.

   in translation:

   ...me drawings that should come back from London. Seurat isn’t in town yet, and I don’t know what he...

   in note 5:

   See letter 707, n. 5, for Seurat’s frames.

   in note 4:

   Seurat had spent the summer in Port-en-Bessin (Normandy). See exhib. cat. Paris 1991, p. 408.

6. 584 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 10 March 1888.

   in translation:

   And we also invite you, Guillaumin, Seurat, Gauguin &c. &c. to join us (your pictures being put to th...

   Congratulations on buying the Seurat — with what I send you you’ll have to try to make an exchang...

   in note 9:

   No exchange between Van Gogh and Seurat ever took place.

   in note 8:

   ...7, no. 47127) Theo had bought a drawing by Georges Seurat for 16 francs; it was Woman singing in a ca...

   in note 6:

   ...oulevard’, among whom he counted Guillaumin, Seurat and Gauguin, as well as Bernard, Anquetin, Angr...

7. 707 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 17 October 1888.

   in translation:

   Have they seen any Seurats, these gentlemen with the frame? I think I’d prefer Seurat’s frame to ...

   Yes, speaking of Seurat — have you seen him again yet?

   in note 5:

   Van Gogh is referring to the innovations Seurat introduced in his frames from the start of 1888. He e...

8. 594 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 April 1888.

   in translation:

   The same for Seurat, it would be a good thing to have a painted study by him.

   in note 10:

   As far as we know, Van Gogh and Seurat never exchanged works.

9. 669 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.

   in translation:

   ...ogma any more than another. Another reason why Seurat’s La Grande Jatte, Signac’s landscapes with...

   in note 5:

   Georges Seurat, La Grande Jatte (Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte), 1884-1886. (The ...

10. 689 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 26 September 1888.

    in translation:

    ...o be making a great effort for the year ’89. Seurat has enough, with 2 or 3 of his enormous canvase...

    in note 9:

    See letter 589, n. 19, for Seurat’s large canvases.

11. 858 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 19 March 1890.

    in translation:

    Seurat exhibited a most curious painting there, searching to express things through the direction o...

    in note 6:

    Seurat, The Chahut, 1889-1890 (Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum). Ill. 2313. See exhib. cat. Paris 18...

12. 589 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 25 March 1888.

    in translation:

    ...practically nothing, would be sorry to see the Seurats in a provincial museum or a cellar — these p...

    in note 19:

    ...on 19 February 1888, Vincent went with Theo to Seurat’s studio (see letter 695) at 128bis boulevard...

    in note 18:

    ...ve mentioned the rumours about the purchase of Seurat’s Models by the city of Paris in his previous...

    in note 13:

    ...ts; see letter 582, n. 9. Angrand, Anquetin, Lucien Pissarro, Seurat and Signac also had work there.

13. 704 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 15 October 1888.

    in translation:

    But tell me what Seurat’s doing. If you see him, tell him on my behalf that I have in progress a de...

    I’d very much like us to have Seurat’s portrait of himself.

    in note 11:

    Van Gogh did not have a specific Seurat self-portrait in mind here, but is envisaging something along...

    in note 10:

    See letter 589, n. 19, for Vincent and Theo’s visit to Seurat’s studio.

14. 620 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 5 June 1888.

    in translation:

    ...er of the Petit Boulevard is without any doubt Seurat, and young Bernard has perhaps gone further tha...

    in note 5:

    ...99) and the chalk drawing The café concert by Seurat (cat. no. 108). See exhib. cat. Arti et Amiciti...

15. 799 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 5 September 1889.

    in translation:

    ...ises much smaller than where it was up to now. Seurat has some seasides, Signac two landscapes. There...

    in note 19:

    Theo must be referring to Seurat’s painting Circus parade, 1887-1888 (New York, The Metropolitan Mu...

    in note 16:

    Seurat exhibited Le Crotoy, downstream, 1889 (private collection), Le Crotoy, upstream, 1889 (The Det...

16. 575 To Emile Bernard. Paris, about December 1887.

    in note 7:

    ...y distanced themselves from the Pointillism of Seurat and Signac. They developed a ‘synthetizing’...

17. 603 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 May 1888.

    in translation:

    ...to be changed from the artistic point of view. Seurat would find some very picturesque figures of men...

18. 602 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 1 May 1888.

    in note 24:

    ...19 February 1888 Vincent went with Theo to see Seurat in his studio. See letter 589, n. 19. We do not...

    in translation:

    Have you seen Seurat again?

19. 695 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.

    in translation:

    ...uillaumin, with Pissarro, father and son, with Seurat, whom I didn’t know (I visited his studio jus...

    in note 4:

    See letter 589, n. 19, for Vincent and Theo’s visit to Seurat’s studio.

20. 592 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 3 April 1888.

    in note 17:

    ... (F 314 / JH 1258) hung in the rehearsal room. Seurat and Signac also exhibited there. See exhib. cat...

21. 683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.

    in translation:

    What’s Seurat doing? I wouldn’t dare show him the studies I’ve already sent, but the ones of th...

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1. Chronology

   in 1888:

   ...ably visits the exhibition of work by Angrand, Seurat and Signac at the offices of La Revue Indépend...

   19 February Together with Theo visits Seurat’s studio to see his most recent work; a few hours lat...

   in 1887:

   ...ng, Toulouse-Lautrec and himself. He meets Georges Seurat and Paul Gauguin there. Makes regular visit...

   ...xhibition of work by Anquetin, Camille Pissarro and Seurat at the offices of La Revue Indépendante.