... I feel, to the point of being morally physically crushed and destroyed, the need to produce, precisely because in summary I have no other means of getting to offset our expenses, and I can not do anything, given the fact that my paintings do not sell. There will come a day however, that this will be worth more than the price it costs us the color and my life, very poor indeed. I have no more desire and more concern about money or finances, to abolish debts. But my dear brother, my debt is so great that when you have paid, which I do wrong to produce the pictures I have stolen life and I seem not to have lived ...
Fragment
Last Letters from the madness written by Vincent to his brother Theo Van Gogh.
The table shows (Dr. Gachet Portrait) has been one of the most paid in the history of art, Japanese bought it in more than eighty million dollars, the buyer died inexplicably broke.
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