Full name: The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

Author: Martin Gayford Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Art, Biographies, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316769013 9780618990580 0316769010 0618990585

From October to December 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a home in Arles with Vincent van Gogh. This was, without doubt, the most celebrated cohabitation in art history: never, before or since have two such towering artistic talents been penned up in so small a space. They were the Odd Couple of art history. Predictably, the results were explosive. The dâenouement of their life together has entered into folklore. Two months after Gauguin arrived in Arles, Van Gogh suffered a psychological crisis. He spent most of the rest of his life in a mental institution. Gauguin fled from Arles, and they never saw each other again. But in the brief period during which they worked together a stream of masterpieces was created within the studio they shared. Here, for the first time, the full story of their life together is told. Similar books: Man with a Blue Scarf by Martin Gayford The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe Mad Enchantment by Ross King Matisse the Master by Hilary Spurling Michelangelo by Miles J. Unger Rembrandt's eyes by Simon Schama Goya by Robert Hughes A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years: 1917-1932 by John Richardson Cezanne by Alex Danchev Utopia Parkway by Deborah Solomon Titian by Sheila Hale Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King The Lost Battles by Jonathan Jones The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance by Paul Robert Walker In Montmartre by Sue Roe Caravaggio by Andrew Graham-Dixon Art History by Dana Arnold Van Gogh by Steven Naifeh M by Peter Robb The Art of Rivalry by Sebastian Smee