This book works beautifully around the idea of a romance between the painter and the doctor’s daughter, in the months right before Vincent took his own life, in the Summer of 1890. Van Gogh has painted Marguerite Gachet, the daughter of his physician in Auvers-sur-Oise, twice. This book plays out with ideas of what those ten months might have been in van Gogh’s life, when he was still a priest in the region of Borinage, Belgium, a young man looking for answers and the meaning of life. There is, however, a period of ten months where the communication between the two men was scarce. The letters exchanged between Vincent and his brother Theo – compiled in The Letters Of Vincent van Gogh – are the best source of information for those wishing to trace van Gogh’s footsteps. The Season of Migration by Nellie Hermann In this tale, the author explores a possible romance between her and the painter. Recent research proves that the receiver of van Gogh’s ear was Gabrielle Berlatier, a farmer’s daughter working as a maid at the brothel Vincent and his friend and painter Paul Gauguin used to frequent, but for years it was believed that the recipient of such “gift” had been a young prostitute named Rachel.
Since not even van Gogh himself could remember how this came to happen, much has been speculated about the matter. The most famous incident regarding van Gogh was the psychotic episode which led him to cut his left ear off. It is mostly focused on how van Gogh came to die, presenting us with a very interesting theory. Gachet, and plays with the idea of what might have been, rather than sticking only to the facts of what actually was. This book is told from the point of view of Dr.
Van Gogh spent his last months in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village in the suburbs of Paris, where he was under the care of a homeopath physician, Dr.
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