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Vincents Colours (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books)

Vincents Colours (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books)

by Vincent Van Gogh (Author), William Lach (Author)

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Format: Picture Book
 Pages: 48
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 01 Feb 2006
ISBN 10: 0811850994
ISBN 13: 9780811850995

Media Reviews
This slim volume, produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is an extraordinary accomplishment. Editor William Lach takes Van Gogh's own words from his letters to his brother Theo, translated closely or freely from French or Dutch, to describe the colors of some of his most famous and beloved paintings. Lach has rhymed them gently: Leaves of silver turning to green, / stars sparkling, greenish, yellow, white, / a big bunch of violet irises, / and in my head a starry night. There's a single line of text per spread, each opposite a full reproduction or a detail of the painting that corresponds to the line. The book begins with a very brief introduction and ends with a complete list of the paintings with full description and a citation for the correspondence from which each description comes. Children and their adults will marvel at the sunflowers that are twelve flowers that are light on light or a lady's clothes in black, black, black. Accessible to the youngest of connoisseurs. -Booklist