Recognizing van Gogh’s cypresses as symbols in the artworks, the 19th-century poet and art critic Gabriel-Albert Aurier contextualized them within the allegorical impulse of symbolist painting.

Two years later, just months before his death by suicide, the tormented artist sent a letter to the French art critic Albert Aurier in which he wrote: “In my case the emotions that take hold of ...

The first of these was the French Symbolist writer Albert Aurier’s 1890 article which praised Van Gogh’s work but called him: “An inspired enemy of all bourgeois sobriety and scruple, a kind of ...

It was in the home of the descendants of Albert Aurier, the avant-garde critic who had been the only person to publish a detailed article on Van Gogh during the artist’s lifetime. Vincent van ...