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Too few artists are appreciated in their lifetimes. “He came rushing in like a bull in a china shop and spread his roll of (paintings) out all over the floor.… Everyone crowded around the newly arrived Dutchman, who gave more of an impression of an itinerant oilcloth dealer, unrolling and unfolding at a flea market his marked-down samples of easily foldable tablecloths.… Indeed, what a funny spectacle! And what an effect it had! The majority of the young chaps laughed their heads off. Soon, the news that a wild man had surfaced spread like wildfire throughout the building, and people looked on Vincent as if he were a rare specimen from the “human wonders” collection in a traveling circus.” excerpt from “Van Gogh: The Life.”
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 13:43:19 +0000

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