Book cover for The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford

The Yellow House

Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

2009 Released
353 Pages
6-7 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
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Little, Brown and CompanyISBN 9780316087209

This chronicle of the two months in 1888 when Paul Gauguin shared a house in France with Vincent Van Gogh describes not only how these two hallowed artists painted and exchanged ideas, but also the texture of their everyday lives. Includes 60 B&W reproductions of the artists' paintings and drawings from the period.

Martin Gayford

Martin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator and the author of acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable, and Michelangelo. He is the author of My Heart Is This: Tracey Emin on Painting, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney, Venice: City of Pictures, The World According to David Hockney, among others.

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