Vincent's portraits

". . . In this dramatic set of portraits created during Van Gogh's ten-year career, the reader sees his desire to record a number of themes, from the plight of the agricultural workers in his native Brabant and the destitution of prostitutes and their children in urban Europe to the lives of his cosmopolitan acquaintances in Paris, including caf? owners and art dealers. It was here that he began his remarkable sequence of self- portraits"--Provided by publisher.