Van Gogh [antikvár]

ABOVE ALL-A PAINTERby ÉMILE BERNARDA painter he is, a painter he remains: whether, as a young man, he interprets Holland in brown or, a little older, he paints Montmartre and its gardens as a divisionist, and finally the South of France and Auvers-sur-Oise with a furious impasto. Whether he draws or not, whether he loses himself in patches of color or in distortions, he always remains a painter. And it is this, to-Le Moulin de la Galette. Paris, 1886. Canvas, 15'/,xI8Vt in. Otterlo, Kroller-Muller Stichting.gether with the rare harmonies he sometimes finds in a new combination of certain tones, which gains him attention and brings him to the fore among men of temperament. This little gift he has, a gift he gradually magnifies, and sometimes perhaps to the detriment of all the rest, till it dominates the related investigations he undertook in vain. He is not always a stylist; often, indeed, he5