"caused by ""heredity, chronic disease, overwork, sadness"". In 1914, Theo's body was exhumed and reburied with his brother at Auvers-sur-Oise. Theo van Gogh (art dealer) Theodorus ""Theo"" van Gogh (; 1 May 1857 – 25 January 1891) was a Dutch art dealer. He was the younger brother of Vincent van Gogh, and Theo's unfailing financial and emotional support allowed his brother to devote himself entirely to painting. Theo died at the age of 33, six months after his brother died at the age of 37. Theo is widely known for his influence on his brother; however, this often overshadows the"
"brother Theo of 7 December 1889. According to Ronald Pickvance, ""the view is unique in van Gogh's entire Saint-Remy oeuvre. It is the only work that affords a glimpse of the Romanesque tower of the original Augustinian monastery; in this respect, it can be compared with several views of the Romanesque tower of Saint-Trophime in Arles (e.g., , ). Stylistically, it can be compared with """". The painting was in the collection of the actress Elizabeth Taylor, on display in her living room, and was sold at auction in 2012 following her death for $15,991,575. View of the Asylum and"
"of 1905, Leon corresponded with the Director of the Detroit Museum of Art and offered Theodore's painting ""The River Seine"" as a gift for the Museum's collection. Sadly, the brothers' partnership was not to last as in early 1907, there was a highly publicized feud between Theodore and Leon, which was really more of a stunt arranged by the youngest brother, Louis Scott Dabo to aid the promotion of Theodore's work. Unfortunately, the publicity failed and records show that in the subsequent years only a single one-man exhibition of Theodore's work was mounted at the Morrey Art Galleries in Washington,"
"traced, and many are now attributed to lesser artists or copyists. Overall the prices realized for the better pictures were high, and in some cases their level would not be reached again for a century or longer. As an extreme case, a Ludovico Carracci valued at 60gn in 1798 was auctioned by the Duke of Sutherland in 1913 raising 2gn. An example of a work now only known from a replica (in the Galleria Borghese in Rome) and studies is ""Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Troy"", the only secular history painting by Federico Barocci. The prime version was given in"
"me. However, as I am quite innocent, the gossip from that quarter leaves me perfectly indifferent; as long as they don't bother me in my painting. I don't take any notice of it whatever. With the peasants to whom the accident happened, where I often used to paint, I have remained on good terms, and I am as welcome in their home as I used to be."" Van Gogh and his brother Theo exchanged letters about Vincent's propensity to use dark colors and the amount of black in his paintings. Theo was unable to sell any of his work and"
"death. Throughout his career, van Gogh made few portraits of his close artistic friends or family members. In particular, no portraits were thought to exist even of his brother Theo, by far the closest to him. However, in 2011, the Van Gogh Museum's senior researcher, Louis van Tilborgh, announced that he was satisfied that one of the many self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh is in fact a portrait of his brother Theo. His conclusion was based on a number of striking differences between their features. Theo's portrait, made in 1887, shows a man with shaved cheeks. Theo's beard is not"
"Sayonara Sorcier The original manga tells the story of the van Gogh brothers - the famous painter Vincent van Gogh, and his younger brother Theodorus van Gogh - but primarily from the point of view of his younger brother. Theo is employed as the branch manager of the famous art dealership Goupil & Cie. He seeks to embrace new talents and techniques, but the bourgeoisie mentality of the time deems the lower classes unable to appreciate fine art, marking it as a domain exclusive to high society. Theo struggles to showcase art that depicts the truth of the everyday. The"
"for him. Diego showed Tony the portraits of Officers he was commissioned to do, but said, ""That is not art!"" Anthony spent much of his free time touring Germany, Switzerland and Northern Italy with Diego. Tony said, ""Anytime there was an espresso sign we stopped. Everybody knew Diego. He would sketch the waitress on a napkin and hand it to her. Diego would paint or sketch nearly every waking minute while traveling together."" It is notable that Anthony Voci is the only known person identified to date that is in possession of any art work by Diego from childhood to"
"Paul Thiebaud Paul Thiebaud (October 10, 1960 – June 19, 2010) was an American art dealer who owned two influential galleries, one in New York City and the other in San Francisco . He exhibited the work of a host of lesser known artists whom he felt it was his role to bring to a wider public audience, in addition to the work of his father, the noted pop painter Wayne Thiebaud. His elder sister is the actress, model and writer Twinka Thiebaud, his mother Betty is a filmmaker, and his brother Matthew is an artist as well. He had"
"Otto Wacker Otto Wacker (1898–1970) was a German art dealer who became infamous for commissioning and selling forgeries of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. Otto Wacker became an art dealer in 1925 after various false starts in other professions. He developed a reputation for reliability in the art field. The fraudulent Van Goghs were probably the work of his brother, the painter and restorer Leonhard Wacker. Otto's father, Hans, was also an artist. Wacker managed to convince prominent Van Gogh experts Jacob Baart de la Faille, Hendrik P. Bremmer, Julius Meier-Graefe and Hans Rosenhagen that the paintings he was selling"
"2018 television series ""Genius"", which focuses on the life and art of Pablo Picasso. Paul Rosenberg (art dealer) Paul Rosenberg (29 December 1881 – 29 June 1959) was a French art dealer. He represented Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse. Both Paul and his brother Léonce Rosenberg were among the world's major dealers of modern art. The younger son of antiques dealer Alexandre Rosenberg, Paul and his elder brother Léonce joined their father's business. Alexandre had established his business in 1878, and by 1898 had become a noted dealer of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. He educated his sons in"
"his brother Theo several times, referring to him as an artist he liked as well as one afflicted by mental illness. Henri de Braekeleer Henri Jean Augustin de Braekeleer (11 June 1840 – 20 July 1888) was a Belgian painter. Henri de Braekeleer was born and died in Antwerp. Trained in drawing by his father Ferdinand de Braekeleer, a well-known genre painter, and his uncle Jan August Hendrik Leys, Braekeleer entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) in 1854. Although he remained a student there until 1861, he publicly exhibited his paintings for the first time in 1858, when"
"William Macbeth (1851–1917) was the first dealer to only represent American artists and he opened his first gallery in 1892. Macbeth and Dougherty forged a lasting friendship and the young painter began a long series of successful exhibitions in the 5th Avenue Gallery. The famous art colony of St. Ives lies on the Cornish Peninsula in Southwestern England and Dougherty worked there extensively. While J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) did a pencil sketch of St. Ives as early as 1811, it wasn't until the completion of a rail line to Penzance in 1859, that artists began to frequent the area and paint"
"the Netherlands and the 23rd most visited art museum in the world. Upon Vincent van Gogh's death in 1890, his work not sold fell into the possession of his brother Theo. Theo died six months after Vincent, leaving the work in the possession of his widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger. Selling many of Vincent's paintings with the ambition of spreading knowledge of his artwork, Johanna maintained a private collection of his works. The collection was inherited by her son Vincent Willem van Gogh in 1925, eventually loaned to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam where it was displayed for many years, and"
"Uncle Cent had no children, his nephews were evidently supposed to follow him up in the firm: Vincent entered in 1869, Theo in 1873. When Vincent was sacked by Léon Boussod in 1876, the balance between the shareholders suffered - and so Theo got his chance. Called to the Paris office for the time of the World Fair 1878, he was offered to stay in Paris. Between 1881 and 1890, Theo was manager of Goupil & Cie's branch on Boulevard Montmartre, from which he sold about 1,000 paintings, including works by members of the Barbizon School like Corot and Daubigny."
"and what to sell seem in many cases very strange today: the two ""Michelangelos"" were only sold in the auctions, and for only 90 and 52 guineas. Many Titians were sold, but many Bolognese Baroque works, as well as most of the later (but not the earlier) Raphaels, were retained. The single Watteau went for only 11 gn, while one Carracci was valued at £4,000 for the galley sale, where all 33 Carraccis were sold, while works attributed to Giovanni Bellini and Caravaggio remained at the auction stage. The current location of many of the pictures can no longer be"
"his brother Theo a great deal about art and literature, and who gave Vincent his first set of art supplies when he decided to become an artist, although he was always somewhat equivocal in his support, abruptly withdrew at the same time. Van Gogh's relationship with Mauve in truth had scarcely lasted a month. Already by the end of January, he was writing his brother Theo that he did not always find it easy to get along with Mauve. Shortly after this, they fell out with each other over an issue involving drawing from plaster casts, which Mauve was anxious"
"including two paintings by Cezanne, pastels by Degas and the first paintings by Picasso to enter the Tate Collection. Stoop died at his home in Islington after a short illness. Frank Stoop Cornelis François Stoop (13 October 1863 – 7 November 1933), also known as Cornelius Frank Stoop, was a Dutch-born stockbroker and art collector based in London. Stoop was born in Dordrecht to Adriaan Stoop and Cornelia Deking Dura. His elder brother brother was Frederick Cornelis Stoop (1854–1933). Cornelis moved to London in the 1880s. Through his generosity and connections with the Tate Gallery, the gallery received an oil"
"denied Gruen's request in 1992 to be given inheritance rights as the artist's common-law husband. He and his wife, Alexandra, whom he married in 1965, acquired all the paintings given to the museum on the open market after Varo's death and are therefore his to give. He said he gave the only painting in Varo's studio at the time of her death, ""Still Life Reviving"", to the artist's mother. The work was auctioned at Sotheby's New York in 1994 for $574,000. The book ""The Crying of Lot 49"" by Thomas Pynchon features a scene in which the main character recalls"
"His only large painting with a mythological subject ever to be sold on the open market is the ""Venus and Mars"", bought at Christie's by the National Gallery for a rather modest £1,050 in 1874. The first nineteenth-century art historian to be enthusiastic about Botticelli's Sistine frescoes was Alexis-François Rio; Anna Brownell Jameson and Charles Eastlake were alerted to Botticelli as well, and works by his hand began to appear in German collections. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood incorporated elements of his work into their own. Walter Pater created a literary picture of Botticelli, who was then taken up by the Aesthetic"
"Frank Stoop Cornelis François Stoop (13 October 1863 – 7 November 1933), also known as Cornelius Frank Stoop, was a Dutch-born stockbroker and art collector based in London. Stoop was born in Dordrecht to Adriaan Stoop and Cornelia Deking Dura. His elder brother brother was Frederick Cornelis Stoop (1854–1933). Cornelis moved to London in the 1880s. Through his generosity and connections with the Tate Gallery, the gallery received an oil painting by Georges Braque, a number of drawings and sculptures by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and a further major donation in 1933 after his death of 17 works by modern European artists,"
"at his color merchant Arsène Poitier's gallery. There they were seen and admired by Vincent van Gogh and his art dealer brother Theo van Gogh, whose firm Goupil & Cie had dealings with Portier. Theo purchased three of Gauguin's paintings for 900 francs and arranged to have them hung at Goupil's, thus introducing Gauguin to wealthy clients. At the same time Vincent and Gauguin became close friends (on van Gogh's part it amounted to something akin to adulation) and they corresponded together on art, a correspondence that was instrumental in Gauguin formulating his philosophy of art. The arrangement with Goupil's"
"Theodore Garman Theodore Garman (1 July 1924 – 22 January 1954), known as Theo, was an English painter of the mid-20th century. Garman was born on 1 July 1924, the son of Kathleen Garman (then a ""student of music"") and Jacob Epstein. Kathleen was Epstein's mistress and later, after his first wife had died, his second wife. Epstein lived apart from Kathleen, Theodore and his two younger sisters, but provided for them, although he was not named on Theo's birth certificate and never publicly acknowledged Theo as his son. At the age of six, Theo's portrait was painted by Epstein."
"a wife, Karen, and two daughters when he died of colon cancer at the age of 49. Paul Thiebaud Paul Thiebaud (October 10, 1960 – June 19, 2010) was an American art dealer who owned two influential galleries, one in New York City and the other in San Francisco . He exhibited the work of a host of lesser known artists whom he felt it was his role to bring to a wider public audience, in addition to the work of his father, the noted pop painter Wayne Thiebaud. His elder sister is the actress, model and writer Twinka Thiebaud,"
"appears to have made few friends and patrons in Rome. In his short mature career, he produced a handful of intensely emotional tenebrist canvases such as a ""Jesus among the Masters"" (Louvre); ""Jesus and the Tribute money"" (National Gallery of Scotland); ""Saint Lawrence distributing alms"" (painted for San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, now Convent of Valvisciolo in Sermoneta); ""Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist"" (San Lorenzo fuori le Mura); ""Saint Michael"" (originally San Pietro in Montorio) and ""Transfiguration of Christ"" (whereabouts unknown); ""Road to Emmaus"" and ""Sons of Zebedee"" (Ascona); ""Portrait of his father"" (Lugano); and ""Portrait of a Philosopher"""
"the first version was sold at auction for $82.5 million ($ million today), a new mark for the highest ever price for a painting, not surpassed until June 2006 by Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. In late 1888, Van Gogh began to experience a mental breakdown, cutting off part of his ear. He stayed in hospital for a month, but was not fully healed and in April 1889 he checked himself into an asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where he remained for a year. When he was released in 1890, Van Gogh's brother Theo was searching for a home for the artist"
"Nicolaes Jonghelinck Nicolaes Jonghelinck (1517-1570) was a merchant banker and art collector in Antwerp. He is best known for his collection of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Frans Floris. His brother was the sculptor Jacques Jonghelinck. In the archives of Antwerp, a writ of guarantee by Jonghelinck, dated 15 February 1566 and declaring to be worth 16.000 guilders, for his friend ""Daniel de Bruyne"" lists ""sixteen paintings by Bruegel, among them the Tower of Babel, a painting with the title Christ carrying the Cross, the twelve Months of the Year, and all the others whichever they might be""."
"his lifetime. Theo's work as an art dealer and the important effect he had on the art world are often overshadowed because of his relation to Vincent, but Theo played a vital role in the introduction of contemporary Dutch and French art to the public. Theo was instrumental in the popularity of Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas by persuading his employers, Goupil & Cie, to exhibit and buy their works. In 1886, Theo invited Vincent to come and live with him in Paris, and from March they shared an apartment in Montmartre. Theo introduced Vincent to"
"Picasso had done of him. He remained dedicated to Cézanne, nonetheless, leaving all the artist's works with his sister, taking with him only a Cézanne painting of ""5 apples"". The split between brother and sister was acrimonious. Stein did not see Leo Stein again until after World War I, and then through only a brief greeting on the street in Paris. After this accidental encounter, they never saw or spoke to each other again. The Steins' holdings were dispersed eventually by various methods and for various reasons. After Stein's and Leo's households separated in 1914, she continued to collect examples"
"Van Gogh threw himself into the painting of the stars, producing, they write, ""a night sky unlike any other the world had ever seen with ordinary eyes."" After having initially held it back, Van Gogh sent ""The Starry Night"" to Theo in Paris on 28 September 1889, along with nine or ten other paintings. Theo died less than six months after Vincent, in January 1891. Theo's widow, Jo, then became the caretaker of Van Gogh's legacy. She sold the painting to poet Julien Leclercq in Paris in 1900, who turned around and sold it to Émile Schuffenecker, Gauguin's old friend,"
"Victor Waddington Victor Waddington (1907 - 1981) was a British art dealer, active in Dublin and then London, an early advocate for the work of Jack Yeats and Henri Hayden. He was the father of fellow art dealers, Leslie and Theo Waddington. He started the Victor Waddington Galleries at 8 South Anne Street, Dublin in 1927, having moved there from London. The gallery exhibited modernist and avante-garde work from Irish, British, and European artists. Other artists that were featured included Yvonne Jammet, Seán Keating, and Moyra Barry. Waddington is regarded as one of the main art dealers of the early"
"of hope as he descends into a world of crime. The painting is one of the few surviving works by Rembrandt's most promising pupil, Carel Fabritius; nearly all of Fabritius' ""œuvre"" was destroyed in the Delft explosion of 1654, in which the artist himself was killed. ""The Goldfinch"" is told in retrospective first-person narration by Theodore ""Theo"" Decker. As a thirteen-year-old boy in New York City, Theo's life is turned upside down when he and his mother visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an exhibition of Dutch masterpieces, including a favorite painting, Carel Fabritius's ""The Goldfinch"". There, he"
"Taco Mesdag Taco Mesdag (Groningen, 21 September 1829 – Den Haag, 4 August 1902) was a Dutch banker and painter. Mesdag, son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and Johanna Willemina, worked with his younger brother Henry in the banking business of his family. Like his brother Hendrik Mesdag, he eventually also chose to paint as a profession. Together they played an important part in the Hague School Pulchri Studio, where Hendrik served as president and Taco as treasurer. He was taught by Paul Gabriël, among others. Mesdag is best known as the painter of the landscape of Drenthe. Much of"