Rimbaud's girl

Just as Vitaly imagined, Degas's studio was very messy, with canvases, easels, paints, hand towels, brush buckets, and brushes everywhere.When they arrived at the studio, Degas was not painting but talking to two men.

Degas is unremarkable, with a small face, a beard, and a thin figure.He is 39 years old, and he is at the most vigorous creative age of a painter.On the way, Folan said something about Degas. He went to the United States last spring and returned to Paris this spring; Except for the eldest son Edgar, several younger children were sent to the United States on the other side of the ocean.

Because Edgar Degas was the eldest son, he needed to serve in the military. The Degas family was still rich, so they let him join the National Guard and stationed in Paris, but did not let him go to the front line.When he participated in the military training, he found that he had vision problems, and he has been looking for an ophthalmologist for consultation, but he kept it secret and refused to mention it—Vitale understood Degas very well, after all, the eye is an indispensable organ for painters , Ordinary people who are blind can still live under the care of others, but if a painter is blind, it will be all over.

Seeing Fran coming, Degas stopped to talk and walked over.

Fran introduced to him, "This is what I said last time, Vitaly Rimbaud, Arthur's sister."

"Hello, Miss Rimbaud."

"Hello, Monsieur Degas."

"Folan said that you are learning painting. I saw your work, and the foundation is very good. Why, are you interested in coming to me to learn painting?"

Vitaly glanced at Fulan in surprise: I don't know what this guy told Degas. It seems that Fulan wanted her to learn painting from Degas?

"I would like to have the opportunity to learn from you, but I am living at Mr. Flaubert's house in Rouen, and I don't often come to Paris." She was very sorry.

"Fran told me," Degas said indifferently, "You can take some paintings back and copy them."

He walked to the wall and picked out some paintings from a pile of wooden drawing boards, "copy these first, take them back, and bring me your studies next time you come to Paris. I have seen your sketches and sketches, you So talented, don't waste your talent."

Vitaly thought, so my talent lies in painting, not in writing?

Painting and writing are all about talent. A well-known painter like Degas would not waste time on young students without talent. He was busy, for example, after finding her copied works to take back, he went to Talk to the two men.

The two men were dressed in suits and leather shoes. They looked ordinary, but they were not poor painters just by looking at their clothes.One is older, about 30 or 40 years old. Because of the beard, it is really hard to tell the exact age. In this era, men in their 30s start to grow beards;

The other man was much younger, beardless, about Furlan's age; with a high-bridged nose, deep-set eyes, curly dark-brown hair flashing ginger red, and a large, intelligent-looking forehead.Because it was mainly the older man who was talking to Degas, who looked like the boss's little secretary or something, obviously a junior.

He listened carefully to the older man and Degas talking, and occasionally glanced at Foran and the others.

Folan is asking the studio's apprentices to pack the panels and put them in a wooden box.

He said to Vitaly: "Degas thinks that your foundation is very good, and you are still young. As long as you keep studying, you will definitely become a great female painter in the future."

"I thought the profession of painters didn't welcome women."

"Where did you go?! -->>

"Fulan glanced at her reproachfully, and said with a smile: "There are quite a few female painters who paint well.Degas likes to collect paintings by painters who are not too early. See, that is the manager of the Paris branch of Goupil's company. He came to order Degas's paintings and also helped him find paintings by other painters. "

Understood, it belongs to art sales company and art intermediary company.Vitaly nodded, "What about the younger one?"

"His name is——Van Gogh, what's his name?" Foran frowned and recalled vigorously, "His uncle used to be a partner of Goupil Company, but now he is retired, but still holds shares in Goupil Company. Listen Speaking of Goupil & Co.?"

"never heard of that."

The young Van Gogh seemed to have heard his last name, so he walked briskly between the easel, drawing board and long table, "I am Vincent Van Gogh, and I have the honor to introduce you to Goupil Company business?"

So for the next 5 minutes, Vitaly listened to Vincent van Gogh's fluent and formulaic introduction to Goupil&Cie and its business.

Goupil is a very big company, mainly selling works of art and reproductions of works of art, oil paintings, prints, photos, etc., as well as authentic works, helping customers in need to find specific works of art, etc.; headquartered in Paris, is A French company; it has branches in The Hague, Belgium, Berlin, Germany, London, England, and New York, the United States. The business is very large and prosperous.

Vitaly didn't feel much about the surname of Van Gogh at first, but when he heard the young Van Gogh introduce himself as "Vincent", he suddenly widened his eyes: this!Could this man be another posthumous genius, the Van Gogh?She remembered that Van Gogh started to learn painting at a very old age, not since he was a teenager, so now he doesn't see that he has the potential to become a painter at all, he is just an art salesman— — This is quite interesting.

She wondered how profitable it is to be an art intermediary. Since Goupil can open so many foreign branches, it means that this business is quite profitable.There are not many other things in Paris, young painters can be said to be numerous, and many of them will be famous in the future. Based on the limited names of later artists in her memory, if she wants to do this business, she should be able to take advantage of the painters. When I was young, I hoarded a large number of works of art, but the problem is that the essence of "hoarding" is to buy at low prices and sell at high prices, and in the past 10 years, they may not necessarily become famous.

Therefore, it is still the most profitable business for the middle class who has become rich, and the turnover is fast. There is no shortage of artistic accomplishment in the world, which is about zero, but they want to be arty, and hang portraits and landscapes of ancestors (if any) on the corridors of their homes. Drawing of rich people.

This is an industry that makes money very quickly, and she happily kept this idea in her heart.

The circle of writers in Paris intersects with the circle of painters slightly. Zola’s childhood friend Paul Cézanne is already well-known in the art world in Paris, but he is not considered a “well-known” painter. Vitaly asked Vincent to know about Cézanne ?, he replied politely, never heard of the painter.

The author has something to say: * Hahaha, isn't this appearance so refreshing, natural and unaffected?Although it is not known when Van Gogh went to London in 1873, he can travel back to Paris on a business trip after he goes to London. Everything serves the author's plot.

*Van Gogh’s family background is quite good. Van Gogh’s father was almost an ordinary Calvinist pastor. The shareholder partner of Peel Company, so Van Gogh could go to Goupil Company as an apprentice after he grew up. From the age of 5 to 17, he went to the London branch after graduation, and went to Paris two years later.I think he should have known such painters as Degas, Manet and Monet at that time.

*A little more tomorrow.