Authors: Steven Naifeh
COLOR PLATES
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View of the Sea at Scheveningen
;
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Two Women in the Moor
;
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Head of a Woman
;
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The Potato Eaters
;
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The Old Church Tower at Nuenen
(
“The Peasants’ Churchyard”
);
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Basket of Potatoes
;
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Still Life with Bible
;
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Torso of Venus
;
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In the Café: Agostina Segatori in Le Tambourin
;
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Caraf and Dish with Citrus Fruit
;
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View from Theo’s Apartment
;
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Wheatfield with Partridge
;
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Self-Portrait with Straw Hat
;
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Flowering Plum Tree: after Hiroshige
;
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Self-Portrait as a Painter
;
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The Zouave
;
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The Yellow House
(
“The Street”
);
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Gauguin’s Chair
;
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Tree Trunks with Ivy
(
Undergrowth
);
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The Sower
;
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Wheat Fields with a Reaper
;
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Les Peiroulets Ravine
;
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Almond Blossom
;
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Irises
;
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Tree Roots
; and
Wheat Field with Crows
:
© Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation);
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A Pair of Shoes:
© The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore. Photo credit: Mitro Hood;
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Vegetable Gardens in Montmartre: La butte Montmartre:
© Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam;
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Interior of a Restaurant
; and
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Pink Peach Tree in Blossom
(
Reminiscence of Mauve
): © Stichting Kröller-Müller Museum;
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Pink Peach Tree in Blossom
(
Reminiscence of Mauve
);
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Starry Night Over the Rhône
;
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Self-Portrait
;
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Noon: Rest from Work
(
after Millet
);
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The Church at Auvers
; and
Portrait of Doctor Gachet
: © Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Photo credit: Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY;
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Self-Portrait
;
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Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle
(
La Berceuse
); and
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The Bedroom
: © The Art Institute of Chicago;
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Portrait of Père Tanguy:
© Musee Rodin, Paris, France. Photo Credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY;
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The Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing
, and
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The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night
: © Stichting Kröller-Müller Museum. Photo Credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY;
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La mousmé, Sitting:
© National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC;
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Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin:
© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Robert Treat Paine;
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Portrait of Patience Escalier; Portrait of the Artist’s Mother:
© Norton Simon Art Foundation;
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Still Life: Vase with Oleanders and Books
;
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L’arlésienne: Madame Ginoux with Books
;
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Cypresses
; and
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Olive Picking
:
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY;
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The Night Café in the Place Lamartine in Arles:
© Yale University Art Gallery. Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery/Art Resource, NY;
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Self-Portrait
(
Dedicated to Paul Gauguin
): © Harvard Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906. Photo credit: David Mathews © President and Fellows of Harvard College;
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Public Garden with Couple and Blue Fir Tree: The Poet’s Garden III:
© Private Collection. Photo credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY;
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Tarascon Diligence:
© The Henry and Rose Pearlman; on long-term loan to Princeton University Art Museum. Photo credit: Bruce M. White;
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Vincent’s Chair with His Pipe
; and
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Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers
: © The National Gallery, London. Photo credit: National Gallery, London/Art Resource, NY;
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Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe:
© Collection Niarchos;
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Irises:
© The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles;
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Starry Night:
© The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A. Photo credit: Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY;
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Portrait of Trabuc, an Attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital:
David Brooks (
www.vggallery.com
);
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Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital:
© The Armand Hammer Collection, Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California;
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Daubigny’s Garden:
© Kunstmuseum Basel.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
S
TEVEN
N
AIFEH
and G
REGORY
W
HITE
S
MITH
graduated from Harvard Law School in 1977. Mr. Naifeh, who has written for art periodicals and worked at the National Gallery of Art, studied art history at Princeton and did his graduate work in fine arts at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. Mr. Smith, who majored in English literature at Colby College, studied medieval and Renaissance music as a Watson Fellow in Europe and did graduate work at Harvard while serving as the assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club. He also wrote two television series, one on human behavior with Phil Donahue and one on the Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution with Archibald Cox. The two men have written many books on art and other subjects, including four
New York Times
bestsellers. Their biography
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It was made into the Academy Award–winning 2000 film
Pollock
starring Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden and inspired John Updike’s novel
Seek My Face
. Naifeh and Smith have been profiled in
The New Yorker, The New York Times, USA Today
, and
People
, and have appeared on
60 Minutes
. They live in Aiken, South Carolina, where they serve as chairmen of the Juilliard in Aiken Festival, which they helped found in 2009.
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