Martin Gayford

Details a three-month period in 1888 when Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh shared a small yellow house in the south of France, describing how these two master artists worked together in Arles to create a stunning array of artistic masterpieces, an arrangement that lasted until Van Gogh suffered a devastating psychological crisis. Reprint.

Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence

The Yellow House

Two artistic giants. One small house. From October to December 1888 a pair of largely unknown artists lived under one roof in the French provincial town of Arles. Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh ate, drank, talked, argued, slept and painted in one of the most intense and astonishing creative outpourings in history. Yet as the weeks passed Van Gogh buckled under the strain, fought with his companion and committed an act of violence on himself that prompted Gauguin to flee without saying goodbye to his friend. The Yellow House is an intimate portrait of their time together as well as a subtle exploration of a fragile friendship, art, madness, genius and the shocking act of self-mutilation that the world has sought to explain ever since.

The Yellow House Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence

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