Walking along the rue Lepic on Montmartre, building number 54 has a small plaque which reminds us that Vincent van Gogh lived here from 1886 to 1888. He arrived in March, just this time of the year and left two years later for Arles in the South of France.
Reading the letters between the Van Gogh brothers and to family and friends, we are painfully reminded of the numerous difficulties which surrounded them both.
http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/browse.html
In the last 100 years Vincent's influence as a "post-Impressionist" on subsequent artists is recognized and his paintings which at his time did not find buyers are now sold in auctions for astronomical amounts......Then and Now!
