Portrait of  Doctor Gachet, 1890, 67 x 56 cm, 

Portrait of  Doctor Gachet, 1890, 68 x 57 cm, Musée d'Orsay

THE NIGHTMARE of the cloister of Saint-Remy ended on the 17th of May, 1890. A warder accompanied Vincent as far as Tarascon, the home of Tartarin, and then he travelled alone all night to Paris. He reached his journey's end according to plan. His brother was waiting for him at the Gare de Lyon, and Vincent laughed at Theo's anxious expression. Life was not as serious as all that. In fact his condition was really less serious now than it had been four years ago, for he had brought something with him on this occasion. The south was a queer place. Only yesterday he had painted another still-life of roses, two greens, two pinks, before a yellow background, that was all. The picture seemed to him quite passable, although a long way behind Monticelli. It was possible that the pictures he had painted during the last days in the south might repay his travelling expenses. Theo would see for himself, as soon as they were dry they would be sent to him. There was not sun enough to paint pictures like that in Paris, but instead he might perhaps paint one of the shops with their show windows, one of the yellow bookshops in the gas-light. Artificial light had attracted him for a long time, and he wanted to paint an empty street with its lighted lamps in the early morning.

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