Posthumous fame of Vincent van Gogh day it was painted because he described it in a letter to his brother, Theo, and said he painted it the previous day July 4, 1888. Various aspects of van Gogh's life have been portrayed in several film features including "Lust for Life" (1956) with Kirk Douglas in the title role, "Vincent" (1987), "Vincent & Theo" (1990), "Vincent and Me" (1990), "Dreams" (1990), and "Van Gogh" (1991). "Dreams" was directed by Akira Kurosawa and featured Martin Scorsese in a vignette portraying van Gogh during his last year while painting wheat fields. "At Eternity's Gate" (2018) is an upcoming drama film
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