VAN GOGH POSTMAN FULL

He painted no fewer than twenty portraits of the Roulin family.

When the opportunity arose to also paint Joseph’s wife and three children, he grabbed it with both hands. Here, Van Gogh has applied the paint with a quick, fluent brushstroke.

VAN GOGH POSTMAN FULL

The poppies, cornflowers, daisies and roses are painted fairly precisely, in contrast to Joseph’s face and full beard with the stylized curls. Paul Getty Museum Collection) 1888 Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 - 1890) Reed and quill pen and brown ink, over black chalk Unframed: 32.1 × 24. In this colourful painting he chose summer flowers. But such a good fellow, so wise, so feeling and so faithful’.īetween August 1888 and April 1889 he painted six consecutive portraits of Joseph, three of which had flowers in the background. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Robert Treat Paine II 35.1982, F432.

In a letter to Theo he describes him as ‘a man who is not bitter, not melancholy, not perfect, not happy and also not always perfectly honest. The Postman Joseph Roulin, July 31August 3, 1888.Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 18531890). Van Gogh went there frequently to send paintings to his brother Theo in the Netherlands and they became close friends. Joseph Roulin worked as the postmaster at the station in Arles.

Van gogh postman