TY - BOOK AU - Gogh,Vincent van AU - Bakker,Nienke AU - Jansen,Leo AU - Luijten,Hans ED - Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) TI - The real Van Gogh: the artist and his letters SN - 9781905711604 (hbk.) : U1 - 759.9'492 22 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Royal Academy of Arts KW - Gogh, Vincent van, N1 - Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 23 Jan.-18 Apr. 2010; Includes bibliography (p. 294-296) and index N2 - Vincent Van Gogh is one of the greatest figures in Western art. Revered for his bold expressionist paintings, he is also admired as a prodigious and eloquent letter writer. This book explores Van Gogh's correspondence as a self-portrait of the artist and the man. The pen sketches that Van Gogh often did before painting, some included in his letters, are also shown, along with related paintings ER -