Portrait of Père Tanguy - Vincent Van Gogh
When Vincent Van Gogh arrived in Paris for the first time, he met one of the most delightful characters of the Parisian artistic milieu of the 1880s and 1890s, the man his painter friends affectionately called "Father Tanguy". Nicknamed the "color crusher", he ran a small color store on rue Clauzel and often accepted paintings in exchange for his wares. In this impressionnist work, the artist represents his subject in the style of the old Japanese sages on a background saturated with brightly colored Japanese prints.
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When Vincent Van Gogh arrived in Paris for the first time, he met one of the most delightful characters of the Parisian artistic milieu of the 1880s and 1890s, the man his painter friends affectionately called "Father Tanguy". Nicknamed the "color crusher", he ran a small color store on rue Clauzel and often accepted paintings in exchange for his wares. In this impressionnist work, the artist represents his subject in the style of the old Japanese sages on a background saturated with brightly colored Japanese prints.
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