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Minkowska, Françoise. “Van Gogh as an Epileptic (1922)” (“Van Gogh: les relations entre sa vie, sa maladie et son oeuvre,”
L’Évolution Psychiatrique
, no. 3, 1933, pp. 53–76). In
Van Gogh in Perspective
, edited by Welsh-Ovcharov, pp. 102–4.

Mirabeau, Octave. “Le Père Tanguy” (Des
artistes
, Paris: Ernest Flammarion, February 1894). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, p. 222.

Mourier-Petersen, Christian Vilhelm. “On Van Gogh in Arles” (letter from Mourier-Petersen to Johan Rohde, March 1988, in Rohde,
Den frie udstelling: Journal fra en I rejse 1892
, courtesy of H. P. Rohde). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, p. 108.

Newton, H. Travers. “Observations on Gauguin’s Painting Techniques and Materials.” In
A Closer Look
, edited by Peres, Hoyle, and Van Tilborgh, pp. 103–111.

Niedermeyer, Ernst. “Neurologic Aspects of the Epilepsies.” In
Psychiatric Aspects of Epilepsy
, edited by Blumer, pp. 99–142.

“Obituary” (
L’Écho Pontoisien
, August 7, 1890). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, p. 219.

Op de Coul, Martha. “Nuenen and Its Environs in the Work of Vincent van Gogh.” In
Van Gogh in Brabant
, compiled by Van Uitert, pp. 92–101.

Osborn, Max. “Der Bunte Spiegel” (Der
Bunte Spiegel
, New York: Verlag Frederich Krause, 1945). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, p. 89.

Pabst, Fieke, and Evert van Uitert. “A Literary Life, with a List of Books and Periodicals Read by Van Gogh.” In
The Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh
, edited by Van Uitert and Hoyle, pp. 68–84.

Parry-Jones, William L. “The Model of the Geel Lunatic Colony and Its Influences on the Nineteenth-Century Asylum System in Britain.” In
Madhouses, Mad Doctors, and Madmen
, edited by Scull, pp. 201–17.

Pereira, Orlindo Gouveia. “The Role of Copying in Van Gogh’s Oeuvre and Illness.” In
Van Gogh 100
, edited by Masheck, pp. 159–72.

Peres, Cornelia. “An Impressionist Concept of Painting.” In
A Closer Look
, edited by Peres, Hoyle, and Van Tilborgh, pp. 24–38.

Perrot, Michelle, and Anne Martin-Fugier. “The Actors.” In
A History of Private Life IV
, edited by Perrot, pp. 95–338.

“Petition and Investigation Report” (The City of Arles vs. Vincent van Gogh, February–March 1889). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 132–34.

Peyron, Théophile. “On His New Patient, Vincent” (letter from Peyron to Theo van Gogh, May 26, 1889). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 152–153.

Pickvance, Ronald. “An Insatiable Appetite for Pictures: Vincent the Museumgoer.” In
The Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh
, edited by Van Uitert and Hoyle, pp. 59–67.

Piérard, Louis. “Among the Miners of the Borinage” (
La vie tragique de Vincent van Gogh
, Brussels: Éditions Labor, 1939). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 45–48.

Pierloot, Roland. “Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Psychosomatic Research, Belgium, 1970.” In
World History of Psychiatry
, edited by Howells, pp. 136–49.

Pissarro, Lucien. “On Van Gogh in Paris” (letter from Pissarro to Dr. Paul Gachet, January 26, 1928; see Pissarro,
Lettres impressionistes au Dr Gachet et à Murer
, pp. 54–56). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 88–89.

Ravoux-Carrié, Adeline. “Recollections on Vincent van Gogh’s Stay in Auvers-sur-Oise [1956]” (“Les Souvenirs d’Adeline Ravoux sur le séjour de Vincent van Gogh à Auvers-sur-Oise,”
Les Cahiers de Van Gogh
I, pp. 7–17). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 211–19.

“Register of Voluntary Commitments” (Maison de Santé de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1889). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 151–52.

Rey, Felix. “With Van Gogh’s Friends in Arles” (interviewed by Max Baumann, “Bei Freunden Van Goghs in Arles,”
Kunst und Künstler
, vol. 26: 1928). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 131–32.

Robertson, Mary M. “Ictal and Interictal Depression in Patients with Epilepsy.” In
Aspects of Epilepsy and Psychiatry
, edited by Trimble and Bolwig, pp. 213–34.

Rodin, Ernst. “Medical Treatment of Epileptic Patients.” In
Psychiatric Aspects of Epilepsy
, edited by Blumer, pp. 143–78.

Roskill, Mark Wentworth. “Van Gogh at Auvers.” In
Van Gogh 100
, edited by Masheck, pp. 321–34.

Salles, Frédéric. “On the Petition and Investigation Report” (letters from Salles to Theo van Gogh, March–April 1889; see Hulsker, “Vincent’s Stay in the Hospitals at Arles and Saint-Rémy,” pp. 24–44). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 134–36.

Schapiro, Meyer. “On a Painting of Van Gogh” (
View: The Modern Magazine
, vol. 7, no. 1: October 1946, pp. 9–14). In
Van Gogh in Perspective
, edited by Welsh-Ovcharov, pp. 159–68.

Seurat, Georges. “On Van Gogh in Paris” (draft of a letter from Seurat to Maurice Beaubourg, August 28, 1890, private collection; see Fénéon, “Georges Seurat”). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, p. 90.

Shackleford, George T. M. “Van Gogh in Paris.” In Dorn, et al.,
Van Gogh Face to Face
, pp. 86–125.

Sheon, Aaron. “Van Gogh’s Understanding of Theories of Neurosis, Neurasthenia and Degeneration in the 1880s.” In
Van Gogh 100
, edited by Masheck, pp. 173–91.

Signac, Paul. “Vincent van Gogh” (letter from Signac to Gustave Coquiot, in Coquiot,
Vincent van Gogh
). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, p. 136.

———and Vincent van Gogh. “On Signac’s Visit to Arles” (letters from Signac and Vincent, March–April 1889; see Van Gogh,
The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 145–47.

Sillevis, John. “Van Gogh in the Hague Art World.” In
Van Gogh en Den Haag
, edited by Van der Mast and Dumas, pp. 146–65.

Sonn, Richard D. “Marginality and Transgression: Anarchy’s Subversive Allure.” In
Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture
, edited by Weisberg, pp. 120–41.

Soth, Lauren. “Fantasy and Reality in the Hague Drawings.” In Dorn et al.,
Van Gogh Face to Face
, pp. 60–79.

Sund, Judy. “Van Gogh’s ‘Berceuse’ and the Sanctity of the Secular.” In
Van Gogh 100
, edited by Masheck, pp. 205–25.

———. “Famine to Feast: Portrait Making at Saint-Rémy and Auvers.” In Dorn et al.,
Van Gogh Face to Face
, pp. 182–227.

Tardieu, Eugène. “The Salon of the Indépendants” (Le
Magazine Français Illustré
, April 25, 1891). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, p. 280.

Tersteeg, H. G. “Brief van H. G. Tersteeg aan Theo van Gogh, The Hague, 7 Apr. 1890.” In
Verzamelde Brieven van Vincent van Gogh
(1955 ed.), edited by Van Gogh–Bonger and Van Gogh, pp. 304–5.

Thomson, Richard. “The Cultural Geography of the Petit Boulevard.” In
Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard
, edited by Homburg, pp. 65–108.

Tonio. “Notes and Recollections” (“Notes et souvenirs: Vincent van Gogh,”
La Butte
, May 21, 1891). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 281–82.

Trublot, Paul Alexis. “At Midnight” (
Cri du peuple
, September 7, 1887). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, p. 96.

Valadon, Suzanne. “Vincent van Gogh” (interviewed by Florent Fels, in Fels,
Vincent van Gogh
, Paris: Henry Floury, 1928). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, p. 87.

van Crimpen, Han. “The Van Gogh Family in Brabant.” In
Van Gogh in Brabant
, compiled by Van Uitert, pp. 72–91.

———. “Vincent van Gogh: Friends Remember Vincent in 1912.” In
Vincent van Gogh
, edited by Arikawa, Van Crimpen, et al., n.p.

van der Heijden, Cor G.W.P. “Nuenen Around 1880.” In
Van Gogh in Brabant
, compiled by Van Uitert, pp. 102–27.

van de Wetering, Ernst. “The Multiple Functions of Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits.” In
Rembrandt by Himself
, edited by White and Buvelot, pp. 10–37.

van Gogh, Theo. “On Vincent in Paris” (letters from Theo, 1886–1888; see Hulsker, “What Theo Really Thought of Vincent,” pp. 2–28). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 105–7.

———and G.-Albert Aurier. “On Posthumous Tributes to Vincent” (letters from Theo and Aurier, August–September 1890; see Distel and Stein,
Cézanne to Van Gogh
, pp. 259–69). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 232–36.

van Gogh, Vincent. “An Early Biography” (letter from Vincent to the Reverend Thomas Slade-Jones, June 17, 1876). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 32–41.

———. “Lettres de Vincent van Gogh à Emile Bernard” (
Lettres de Vincent van Gogh à Emile Bernard
, Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1911). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 237–39.

———. Theo van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. “On Exhibition Plans and Responses to Vincent’s Work” (letters from Vincent, Theo, and Gauguin, 1888–1890). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 156–76.

van Gogh–Bonger, Johanna. “Memoir of Vincent Van Gogh by His Sister-in-law.” In Van Gogh,
The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh with Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence
, vol. I, pp. xv–lxvii.

van Tilborgh, Louis. “ ‘A Kind of Bible’: The Collection of Prints and Illustrations.” In
The Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh
, edited by Van Uitert and Hoyle, pp. 38–44.

van Uitert, Evert. “Vincent van Gogh, Painter of Peasants.” In
Van Gogh in Brabant
, compiled by Van Uitert, pp. 14–46.

Wagener, J. Frits. “Vincent of Zundert.” In
Van Gogh 100
, edited by Masheck, pp. 195–203.

Weiller, Pierre. “Nous avons retrouvé le Zouave de van Gogh” (Les
Lettres Françaises
, March 24–31, 1955). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 108–11.

Wenckebach, Ludwig “Willem” Reijmert. “Letters to an Artist” (see Pach,
Letters to an Artist
, pp. xiii–xiv). In
Van Gogh
, edited by Stein, pp. 66–67.

Werness, Hope B. “The Symbolism of Van Gogh’s Flowers.” In
Van Gogh 100
, edited by Masheck, pp. 43–55.

Wilson, Michael L. J. “Portrait of the Artist as a Louis XIII Chair.” In
Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture
, edited by Weisberg, pp. 180–204.

Zemel, Carol M. “The ‘Spook’ in the Machine.” In
Van Gogh in Brabant
, compiled by Van Uitert, pp. 47–58.

Image Credits

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, © Detroit Institute of Arts, USA/City of Detroit Purchase/The Bridgeman Art Library;

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: © Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin P. Buhler;

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