"I'd worked on a canvas in the open air in an orchard — ploughed lilac field, a reed fence — two pink peach trees against a glorious blue and white sky. Probably the best landscape I've done. Just as I brought it home I received from our sister [Willemien] a piece in Dutch dedicated to Mauve's memory.. ..something or other grabbed hold of me and made my throat tight with emotion, and I wrote on my painting: 'Souvenir de Mauve - Vincent & Theo' - and if you think it's good as it stands we'll send it to Mrs. [Jet] Mauve in both our names. I deliberately took the best study I've made here.. .It seemed to me that in memory of Mauve we needed something that was both tender and very cheerful.."
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Quote of Vincent van Gogh, in his letter to brother Theo van Gogh, from Arles, c. 1 April 1888
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Anton Mauve
Anton Mauve (Zaandam, 18 Sept. 1838 - Laren, 5 Feb. 1888) was a Dutch landscape painter and a leading member of the Hague School; in The Netherlands he became famous as the 'sheep'-painter. Mauve was frequently painting in open air with Willem Maris and Gerard Bilders around the village Oosterbeek. He had a significant early influence on his cousin-in-law Vincent van Gogh.
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