Showing posts with label The Royal Academy and Van Gogh the star turn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Royal Academy and Van Gogh the star turn. Show all posts

Saturday, 13 February 2010

Van Gogh Exhibition

I visited the exhibition today- thanks D. Some disappointments of a petty kind- too full and no 'Starry Night' or anything from England but beautiful prose and one movingly written in fluent English. Theo did not live much longer than his brother- he kept the letters so carefully and beautifully I wonder how he could bear to look at them- I know someone who cannot look at a photo or see the handwriting of someone who died a long time ago without feeling totally bereft. The brothers are so close- even though they lived far apart. They are buried side by side