Bright sunshine or a starry sky
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, 9 September 1888
Someday or other you shall have a picture of the little house itself in bright sunshine, or else with the window lit up, and a starry sky.
Henceforth you can feel that you have your country house in Arles. For I am very anxious to arrange it so that you will be pleased with it, and so that it will be a studio in an absolutely individual style; that way, if say a year from now you come here and to Marseilles for your vacation, it will be ready then, and the house, as I intend it, will be full of pictures from top to bottom.
The room you will have then, or Gauguin if he comes, will have white walls with a decoration of great yellow sunflowers.
In the morning, when you open the window, you see the green of the gardens and the rising sun, and the road into the town.
Letter 534
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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Someday or other you shall have a picture of the little house itself in bright sunshine, or else with the window lit up, and a starry sky.
Henceforth you can feel that you have your country house in Arles. For I am very anxious to arrange it so that you will be pleased with it, and so that it will be a studio in an absolutely individual style; that way, if say a year from now you come here and to Marseilles for your vacation, it will be ready then, and the house, as I intend it, will be full of pictures from top to bottom.
The room you will have then, or Gauguin if he comes, will have white walls with a decoration of great yellow sunflowers.
In the morning, when you open the window, you see the green of the gardens and the rising sun, and the road into the town.
Letter 534
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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