Publisher's Synopsis
On the 8th of May 1889, Vincent van Gogh committed himself to the Saint Paul Asylum in Saint-Remy, an isolated estate where he remained as a voluntary patient for a full year. Throughout this time, Van Gogh kept up a continuous correspondence with his brother Theo about his art, mental condition, hopes and ambitions, along with his despair and sense of failure. His asylum year was Van Gogh's most raw and desperate period, yet also his most creative, producing nearly a masterpiece a day. In this book, Edwin Mullins offers a month-by-month account of that crucial penultimate chapter in Van Gogh's life.
