Vincent was raised in a middle-class home and learned to distinguish between two types of women. Ladies from his own class were viewed as ‘higher beings’, while he felt pity for socially disadvantaged women such as prostitutes.
Like his contemporary modern artists, however, it was precisely the latter type of women that he liked to draw and paint.
SOURCEIt’s not the first time I couldn’t resist that feeling of affection, particularly love and affection for those women whom the clergymen damn so and superciliously despise and condemn from the pulpit.
To Theo from Etten, around 23 December 1881
SOURCEVincent, Sien and the children lived together more or less happily for a while following the birth of baby Willem – who was not, as has been suggested, Vincent’s son.
But Sien was a difficult character, as was Vincent, and they were constantly short of money. The allowance provided by Theo now had to cover medicine for Sien, rent for Sien’s mother and items for the baby.
SOURCEPeace, my philosophical friends ...
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