De stoel van gauguin biography
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The two paintings of Vincent's and Paul Gauguin's chairs are among the most often analyzed of Van Gogh's works. Dr. Jan Hulsker comments "There are few pictures of Vincent's about which so much was written in later years."1.
De stoel van gauguin biography
These companion paintings have attracted much attention because of the symbolic interpretations underlying the subject matter. Van Gogh himself discussed these works in a number of his letters, but didn't include any detailed interpretations of the underlying meaning of the paintings.
In letter 626a (10 or 11 February 1890), written to the critic G.-Albert Aurier, Vincent described Gauguin's chair as "somber reddish-brown wood, the seat of greenish straw, and in the absent one's place a lighted torch and modern novels."
In addition to the symbolic undercurrents of the work (discussed below) these two paintings are also unique in terms of the way in which they're displayed together--whether at the rare exhibits in which they have been shown toge