Emile Wauters influenced van Gogh: Unknown Venezia Start Price USD 3,000,000.00 Current Price USD 3,000,000.00 Time Left 3 days 14 hours 25 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, May 08, 2008 End Time Thursday, May 15, 2008 Location New York, NY See more about 'Emile Wauters influenced van Gogh: Unknown Venezia' Description  'Venezia'Van Gogh & Emile Wauters   Recently discovered painting by Emile Wauters (1846-1933) sheds a new light on the influence his art had on Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890).     Emile Wauters, Venezia. Actual painting has somewhat warmer colours Emile Wauters, Venezia, Detail Emile Wauters, Venezia, Detail Emile Wauters, Signature Emile Waters, Venezia, Back The artistic heritage of Belgium was a key factor in any sense of a unified national past. A number of artists turned to the lives of past artists for their subjects. Emile Wauters (1846-1933) combined the Romantic interest in psychology and the role of insanity in artistic creativity in his haunting vision of The Madness of Hugo van der Goes (1872); Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels). Hugo van der Goes (d. 1482) was a very gifted painter who retired from the world in 1475 and entered a monastery in search of a cure for his mental illness. He was stricken while returning from a trip to Rome, according to an account written by Gaspar de Ofhuys, the infirmarius of the Roode Clooster, a monastery near Brussels which sheltered van der Goes. The author of this report had been a young novitiate at the time of van der Goes' illness. He speculated that the illness may have been sent by Divine Providence, or may have stemmed from natural causes, such as "the malignity of corrupt humors that predominate in the human body." Ofhuys noted that van der Goes was "deeply troubled by the thought of how he could ever finish the works of art he wanted to paint," and also perhaps drank too much wine. Wauters' brother A.J. Wauters, was a noted art historian who had written a biography of Hugo van der Goes in 1864; he undoubtedly brought the chronicles of the artist's madness to the attention of his brother. Emile Wauters portrayed van der Goes in the monastery, in the grip of his melancholic depression, while young boys sing to ease his spirits. This picture, with its subject of artistic madness, has fascinated many later observers intrigued by the relationship between artistic creation and insanity. Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888: "As a matter of fact, I am again pretty nearly reduced to the madness of Hugo van der Goes in Emil Wauters's picture. And if it were not that I have almost a double nature, that of a monk and that of a painter, as it were, I should have been reduced, and that long ago, completely and utterly, to the aforesaid condition."   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Wauters Place a Bid!

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