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Jo's short biography of Vincent is perhaps the closest we can come to Vincent the man, as seen by those who knew him. It is presented here with 40 pages of reproductions of his greatest paintings and drawings.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49646589247761,"sku":"GOR007302468","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53135472525585,"sku":"GOR007948505","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1843681064.jpg?v=1751059945"},{"product_id":"memoir-of-vincent-van-gogh-book-jo-van-gogh-bonger-9781843681557","title":"A Memoir of Vincent van Gogh","description":"Vincent van Gogh's short, passionate life was driven by an almost unimaginable creative energy that eventually overwhelmed him. The outlines of his story - the early strivings in Holland and Paris, the revelatory impact of the move to Provence, the attacks of madness that led ineluctably to his suicide - are almost as familiar as the paintings. Yet it is more than possible that neither the paintings nor Van Gogh's story would have survived at all if it had not been for his remarkable sister-in-law, Jo van Gogh-Bonger. After Vincent's death and that of her husband, his brother Theo, Jo devoted her life to preserving and exhibiting the paintings, and editing the letters. It is in her short and unaccountably neglected biography that we can come closest to Vincent the man.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49735138574609,"sku":"NGR9781843681557","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50316567413009,"sku":"GOR013924413","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50415644082449,"sku":"GOR009862104","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51467573330193,"sku":"CIN1843681552VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52687338864913,"sku":"NLS9781843681557","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1843681552.jpg?v=1750833964"},{"product_id":"memoir-of-vincent-van-gogh-book-jo-van-gogh-bonger-9781606065600","title":"A Memoir of Vincent van Gogh","description":"The general outlines of Vincent van Gogh's life-the early difficulties in Holland and Paris, the revelatory impact of the move to Provence, the attacks of madness and despair that led to his suicide-are almost as familiar as his paintings. Yet neither the paintings nor Van Gogh's story might have survived at all had it not been for his sister-in-law, the teacher, translator, and socialist Jo van Gogh-Bonger.     Jo married the painter's brother, Theo, in 1889, and over the next two years lived through the deaths of both Vincent and her new husband. Left with an infant son, she inherited little save a cache of several hundred paintings and an enormous archive of letters. Advised to consign these materials to an attic, she instead dedicated her life to making them known. Over the next three decades she tirelessly promoted Vincent's art, organising major exhibitions and compiling and editing the correspondence, the first edition of which included, as a preface, her account of Van Gogh's life.      An introduction by the art critic and scholar Martin Gayford provides an insightful discussion of the author's relationship with the Van Goghs, while abundant color illustrations throughout the book trace the development of the painter's signature style.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50384486695185,"sku":"CIN1606065602G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53277771661585,"sku":"NIN9781606065600","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53370940621073,"sku":"CIN1606065602VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1606065602.jpg?v=1750895724"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-jo-van-gogh-bonger.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}