Theo van Gogh (art dealer) letters Vincent wrote during his life were to Theo, including his first and his last letters. It is largely thanks to Theo and his wife that these letters are available today. Hardly any of Theo's letters remain because Vincent failed to keep them. The letters have been collected and published in book form as "The Letters of Vincent van Gogh". The relationship between the two brothers was the subject of the movie "Vincent & Theo" (1990), directed by Robert Altman. It also formed an important part of the film "Lust for Life" (1956), which was directed by Vincente Minnelli. Theo
Posthumous fame of Vincent van Gogh and asked Isaacson to stop writing about him. But there was no chance to turn the wheel back: January 1890 - in the first issue refounding the "Mercure de France" - Albert Aurier published his enthusiastic essay 'Les Isolés: Vincent van Gogh', on which Vincent's fame as an artist is based as well as Aurier's as a leading art critic. Another voice was that of Octave Mirbeau whose review article 'Vincent van Gogh' in "L'Echo de Paris" on 1 March 1891. Later that year Van Gogh's friend Émile Bernard contributed short pieces on Van Gogh for "La Plume" and "Les