Vincent van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook Hardcover – November 15, 2016

Beautiful book. It’s bound to the size of the lost sketchbook so all the drawings are at 100%. It’s such an amazing story about such an incredible find. It’s beautifully made. Everyone who loves Van Gogh should get one.

Incredible book. A complete reproduction of the original ledger/sketchbook. Exactly as it appears in real life. The backs of each sketchbook page is represented in this book as it appears in real life. Astonishing reproduction. A real gift to hold in your hands.

Beautiful LARGE BOOK full of amazing under drawings for Vincents painting. Shows several that he completed. What an genius. I would have to say it is one of the finest books in my library.

Put together beautifully! Includes the background of its discovery and history of the sketchbook with the remaining portion laid out like the actual sketchbook, to actual size. I treasure it!

This volume is a marvelous tie-in to the current film "At Eternity's Gate" with Willem Dafoe as Vincent. It is directly referenced in the film. A "must have" for Van Gogh afficienadoes!

An absolutely beautiful book filled with images by Van Gogh that, to my knowledge, had never been previously published.

my own art knowledge. Keep van Gogh's news up to date, great book. Good service.

I wish I could return this book. None of us are experts, so none of us can say for certain either way, no matter what our opinion is comparing these drawings to ones in other publications. Even the experts are in harsh disagreement, and the Van Gogh Museum makes a strong case against them. I am surprised Abrams would launch into this without more exhaustive tests and discussions with the museum. What? And lose sales to all of us anxious Van Gogh lovers? Yes or no, real or not, the publication/sketchbook is under serious question, and it has certainly ruined the enjoyment of it for me.UPDATE: I apologize for my first review. It turns out one CAN compare these to publications of actual Van Gogh drawings and see quite clearly they are fake. I traveled to the Manton Research Center at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown and put a stack of thirty books from their extensive Van Gogh catalog on a table and spent the entire day reading, looking and comparing. Wow. On his worst day, Van Gogh did not, and could not, draw this badly. His drawings and sketches from his time spent at the hospital are better than anything here. I was able to find images of drawings in a 1928 catalog that no longer appear in modern publications because they are now in private collections; all pointing to the fact that by Arles, he had become a great draftsman.Lastly, as was already stated by the experts at the Van Gogh Museum, I found no mention of the book or the drawings in any of his correspondence. Another fact more solid than a note written in a day book that may be fake itself. He carried small sketchbooks, as was the custom then. If he was working in a larger one, I doubt he would have kept it to himself. And an artist gives away a sketchbook??? Seriously?That aside, I can understand two life-long scholars wanting something so badly that they convinced themselves and in turn were blinded by the images in front of them. The greater part of the blame must be lie with Abrams. Did whoever headed up this project travel to the Van Gogh Museum and speak in person with experts there who have denied this from the start? Did they not do what we (with our untrained eye it seems) have done, and by mere comparison come to the same conclusion?I see what one other insightful reviewer offered up as the first art publication to honor the Post-Truth Era.

perfect.

Se veramente, come affermano alMuseo Van Gogh di Amsterdam, si tratti di un falso, beh... allora è congegnato in modo perfetto ...al punto che questi disegni suscitano emozioni tali e quali a quelle provate nel vederli produrre nel film “Van Gogh - Sulla soglia dell’eternità”.

Large heavy book but a delight

Wonderful, full size facsimile reproductions of every extant page of Vincent van Gogh's lost Arles sketches drawn on the pages of an unused bank ledger, that had lain in storage for so many years with nobody realizing what it was - it's like holding an unearthed buried treasure in your hands! The very detailed and authoritative text, that tells the history of the book itself, and puts each sketch into context of the other related contemporaneous known works by van Gogh, allows the reader with even just a casual knowledge of the artists work to see how these newly discovered sketches relate to other well-known (and some little known) works by the artist. It's a great book! (One small caveat: because works are reproduced full size, it's a rather large and heavy volume - be prepared to examine and read it on a table, not your lap.)

This was a wonderful book for those who love van Gogh's work