![]() ![]() Stone was this week awarded the French government's highest literary honor, the insigne of Commandeur in the Ordeur des Arts et des Lettres. It even helped to popularize the French Post-Impressionists with which the painter associated. ![]() ![]() When he returned, he wrote a long, vivid biographical novel on the Dutchman - a novel spurned by 17 major publishers in New York and Boston, because Van Gogh was too obscure a figure.īut when Irving Stone's ''Lust for Life'' was finally published by Doubleday in 1934, it sold 800,000 copies and helped to make Van Gogh practically a household name. In the early 1930s, a young penny-a-word writer of detective yarns sold a batch of stories to the magazine Detective Dragnet, earned enough to get to Europe, and spent six months retracing the footsteps of a relatively unknown Dutch painter - Vincent van Gogh. ![]()
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