그림속의 꽃_빈센트 반 고흐_(4)

__ 3편에서 이어집니다.   

 

1890년 오베르쉬즈오와즈에서 반 고흐는 권총 자살합니다.   아래 글은 동생 테오가 어머니에게 보내는 편지중의 일부입니다.

Today I received your letter and the one from Wil, and I thank you both. I can better tell you everything than write. Dr. Gachet and the other doctor were exemplary and have looked after him well, but they realized from the first moment that there was nothing one could do. Vincent said “I would like to go like this,” and half an hour later he had his wish. Life weighed so heavily upon him, but as happens so often everyone is now full of praise, also for his talent. ..........Oh, Mother, I so much long to be with you. I suppose you will have written to Lies. I can't do it at this time. Tomorrow I will only know for certain whether I can leave, and if I cannot come, I will let you know. Oh, Mother, he was so very much my own brother.

 

아래 글은 에밀 버나드가 비평가 알베르 오리에에게 보내 편지중에 고흐의 죽음과 장례식에 대해 알려 주는 부분입니다.  

Our dear friend Vincent died four days ago.   I think that you will have already guessed the fact that he killed himself.

On Sunday evening he went out into the countryside near Auvers, placed his easel against a haystack and went behind the chateau and fired a revolver shot at himself. Under the violence of the impact (the bullet entered his body below the heart) he fell, but he got up again, and fell three times more, before he got back to the inn where he was staying (Ravoux, place de la Mairie) without telling anyone about his injury. He finally died on Monday evening, still smoking his pipe which he refused to let go of, explaining that his suicide had been absolutely deliberate and that he had done it in complete lucidity. A typical detail that I was told about his wish to die was that when Dr. Gachet told him that he still hoped to save his life, he said, “Then I'll have to do it over again.” But, alas, it was no longer possible to save him….

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At three o'clock his body was moved, friends of his carrying it to the hearse, a number of people in the company were in tears. Theodore Van ghohg who was devoted to his brother, who had always supported him in his struggle to support himself from his art was sobbing pitifully the whole time…

The sun was terribly hot outside. We climbed the hill outside Auvers talking about him, about the daring impulse he had given to art, of the great projects he was always thinking about, and of the good he had done to all of us.

We reached the cemetery, a small new cemetery strewn with new tombstones. It is on the little hill above the fields that were ripe for harvest under the wide blue sky that he would still have loved…perhaps.

Then he was lowered into the grave…

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Dr. Gachet (who is a great lover and possesses one of the best collections of impressionist painting of the present day) wanted to say a few words of homage about Vincent and his life, but he too was crying so much that he could only stammer a very confused farewell…(the most beautiful way, perhaps).

He briefly outlined Vincent's achievements, stating how sublime his goal was and how great an admiration he felt for him (though he had only known him a short time). He was, Gachet said, an honest man and a great artist, he had only two aims, humanity and art. It was art that he prized above everything and which will make his name live.

 

Vase with Flower and Thistles(엉겅퀴)

Painting, Oil on Canvas
Auvers-sur-Oise: June, 1890
Private collection

 

Red Poppies and Daisies 

Painting, Oil on Canvas
Auvers-sur-Oise: June, 1890
Private collection

 

Pink Roses in a Vase

Painting, Oil on Canvas
Saint-R챕my: May, 1890
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York, United States of America, North America

 

Pink Roses

Painting, Oil on Canvas
Auvers-sur-Oise: June, 1890
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe

 

 Japanese Vase with Roses and Anemones

Painting, Oil on Canvas
Auvers-sur-Oise: June, 1890
Mus챕e d'Orsay
Paris, France, Europe

 

 Glass with Carnations

Painting, Oil on Canvas
Auvers-sur-Oise: June, 1890
Private collection

 Glass with Wildflowers

Painting, Oil on Canvas
Auvers-sur-Oise: June, 1890
Private collection

 

Field of Yellow Flowers, A

Painting, Oil on Canvas on Cardboard
Arles, France: April, 1889
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
Winterthur, Switzerland, Europe

 

Fritillaries(백합과?) in a Copper Vase

 Painting, Oil on Canvas
Paris, France: April - May, 1887
Musée d'Orsay
Paris, France, Europe

 

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