No photo adult Van Gogh, but it is the portraits created by various artists from nature, such as Toulouse-Lautrec. They see not a skinny alien with an elongated thin neck, like the famous self-portrait dedicated to Gauguin, and broad-shouldered big, plotnoslozhennogo man.
There is a version that he killed himself, so his picture went up in price, and his brother Theo, which is experiencing at the time the financial difficulties would receive assistance in this way. Vincent Millet was obsessed and appalled by the fact that the picture is already dead Millet was sold for a record half a million francs. He continually copied Millet, may be like and copy the posthumous success.
The moment was very well chosen, after participating in several exhibitions, one of which Monet said that the paintings of Van Gogh - the best and a number of articles in the press interest in the Van Gogh uniquely manifested. At the same time it was sold to a single picture, Red Vineyard at 400 francs, the sister of his friend.
Not aware of the sale of other paintings, but it is known that Van Gogh wrote a few portraits to order.
Had his life not ended, then he probably would have been a modernist - all this was going fast.
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