In January 1890, Vincent van Gogh’s work at last began to attract some attention. The critic Albert Aurier made him the subject of a long, rather overblown but insightful article, “Les Isoles: Vincent Van Gogh”, in the journal Mercers de France, and the avant-garde Belgian group Les Vingt invited him to exhibit at their show in Brussels. Theo sent them a number of Vincent’s paintings, which stirred up some controversy: a Belgian painter, Henri de Groux, denounced them and as a result was…
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