![]() ![]() Portrait of Postman Roulin is on view as part of Humble and Human: An Exhibition in Honor of Ralph C. Sidney and Esther Rabb Gallery (Gallery 255) Join gallery guide Pam Shufro for this in-depth 15-minute talk in the galleries on Vincent van Gogh’s Postman Joseph Roulin (1888). In his Portrait of Postman Roulin, van Gogh built on and expanded the revolutionary image-making techniques pioneered in the preceding decades by the Impressionists to create a quality that his brother Theo van Gogh, who kept this work in his collection until his death, described as something “so striking and so close to the truth.” From staccato hyphens of peach and taupe and energetic arcs of chartreuse and navy emerges an image of Roulin as van Gogh must have seen him: in his full, utterly unique humanity. Van Gogh did not approach Roulin at the remove of an abstract artistic subject but rather as a compatriot-the two shared food, drink, and ardent conversation on the possibilities of socialism. PORTRAIT OF THE POSTMAN JOSEPH ROULIN SERIES
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