Vincent: Bulletin of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh. Complete Vol. 4 1975 #1-4

Vincent: Bulletin of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh. Complete Volume 4, Nos. 1-4, 1975-1976. Four-Issue Set.

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Vincent: Bulletin of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 1975-1976. Complete Volume 4 in four issues: Nos. 1, 2 and 3 dated 1975, and No. 4 dated 1976. Four softcover periodicals with illustrated wrappers.

The complete final volume of the scholarly bulletin issued by the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, now the Van Gogh Museum. The journal was published from 1970 through 1976 and ceased with Volume 4, making this a complete set of its last four numbers.

Illustrated throughout in black and white, with English-language articles addressing Van Gogh's life, early artistic development, drawings, personal associations and collecting interests. Contents include:

* Van Gogh and Gauguin

* Vincent's plans to become a clergyman and his period in Belgium

* Drawings not included in the La Faille catalogue

* Vincent's childhood and adolescence

* The entrance to the "Bank van Leening" in The Hague

* Van Gogh-Michelet-Zola

* Young Vincent's art collection

* Van Gogh's first and only commission as an artist

* Gauguin and Van Gogh

Several articles from this journal remain cited in later Van Gogh scholarship, including "Young Vincent's Art Collection" and the study of Vincent's plans to become a clergyman.

Condition: Fine