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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> JAPANESE PRINTS MADE VINCENT VAN GOGH ‘HAPPY AND CHEERFUL’ as he wrote during his time in Arles when he was at the height of his powers as an artist. They seemed to reflect something of his own ideals and his recognition of their significance for him as an artist had brought about a rapid and radical change in his work and a spectacular increase in his abilities. This happened between the begin- ning of 1887 and the end of 1888 during the second year that he lived in Paris and in his first year in the Provence. Van Gogh had been familiar w Japanese art before this. He had had his first significant encounter with it at the end of 1885 when he left Nuenen and went to Antwerp. Very soon after his arrival in the Belgian port he bought a set of Japanese prints […] that give me great pleasure’ as he wrote to Theo. ‘You know those little figures of women in gardens or on the beach horsemen flowers gnarled thorn branches.’ He pinned his acquisitions on the wall and described Antwerp with these scenes in mind: ‘the docks [here] are one huge Japonaiserie fanciful original extraordinary. (LL)