Working with the cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the authors accessed previously untapped materials to bring an understanding to the mythology of this artist: his early struggles to find his place in the world; his intense relationship with his brother Theo; and his move to Prove...
His wanderings had not mitigated his shame, only worsened it. Months of intermittent and uninformative letters had left his parents even less sympathetic than when he fled in April. Every time he moved from one unpaid, “futureless” job to the next, he reopened the wounds. “We are more and more wo...