"Ça ira encore"
Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard, from The Hague, 28 May 1882
And then the "Carpenter's Shed" - taken from the window of my studio - by working on it with pen and ink I have brought a new kind of black into it, and now “the sun is shining,” because the lights show up more strongly. Today I was at it quite early, for I wanted to make another one like it, and went to the dunes to draw a fish-drying barn, also seen from a height like the carpenter's shed, and now it is nearly one o'clock in the night, but, thank God, everything is finished, and I can look my redoubtable landlord in the face without fear. And so "ça ira encore" -
Letter R08
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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And then the "Carpenter's Shed" - taken from the window of my studio - by working on it with pen and ink I have brought a new kind of black into it, and now “the sun is shining,” because the lights show up more strongly. Today I was at it quite early, for I wanted to make another one like it, and went to the dunes to draw a fish-drying barn, also seen from a height like the carpenter's shed, and now it is nearly one o'clock in the night, but, thank God, everything is finished, and I can look my redoubtable landlord in the face without fear. And so "ça ira encore" -
Letter R08
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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