Vincent, perhaps they'll listen now
TO THE Royal Academy at Burlington House and the new Van Gogh exhibition. If you have the slightest opportunity to go, grab it with both hands.
The sketches and paintings and accompanying letters from Vincent to his younger brother Theo are moving to the point of tears.
The painter’s intelligence, modesty, determination to succeed and wistful admiration of other artists completely explodes his reputation as an unstable, half-mad obsessive.
Looking in awe at the sheer genius of his work, it is inexpressibly sad to reflect that in his short life he never sold a single painting.