Boyd Tonkin
Van Gogh’s London Pilgrimage
As an ardent young preacher and social reformer in London in the 1870s, Vincent van Gogh had by then made no more art than a few crude sketches. Yet, from his teenage years, he had painted in words, with all the rhapsodic power of a voracious reader steeped in the fiction and poetry of three languages: Dutch, English, and French.
April 13, 2019