Vincent van Gogh experienced many kinds of intense love during the thirty-seven years of his life. However, as far as affairs of the heart are concerned, the artist who wrote ‘I can’t live without love, without a woman’ rarely had much good luck. Van Gogh lived through an impressive series of unrequited, rejected and doomed passions, which he wrote about with great intensity. Certain women in his life figure in his drawings and paintings. The only great love that stood firm throughout his entire life was that between him and his brother Theo. Their mutual reliance and fraternal love only increased with time. Hans Luijten is one of the editors of the Van Gogh Letters Project. This publication is part 4 in the series Van Gogh in focus. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2007. Hardcover. Available in Dutch, English and French edition.
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