These are the comments of a keen objective intelligence; and theyreflect van Gogh the painter as well: combining dispassionate observationand analysis with the emotional expression of subjective experience.Van Gogh produced many masterpieces at this time. Sadly, he had an-other attack in July and could not return to work until August. By Septem-ber he was more cheerful and wrote to Theo:My work is going very well, I am finding things that I have sought invain for years, and feeling this, I am always thinking of that saying ofDelacroix’s that you know, namely that he discovered painting whenhe no longer had any breath or teeth left. (NYGS, 1978, Letter 605, 10September 1889.)At this point, his skills were such that he could rapidly produce arendition of a work in the style of Delacroix. He wrote “if you could see meworking, my brain so clear and my fingers so sure that I have drawn that‘Pieta’ by Delacroix without taking a single measurement” (Letter 605, 10September 1889).Theo sent his brother reproductions of paintings by Rembrandt, Milletand Delacroix, which Vincent used as the basis for his own work, no longercopying but “painting” them. During this period he produced some of hisfinest painting. The image of the miner was still perhaps a central one forvan Gogh; but it now took on a different guise in view of his own illnessso that he saw himself “like a miner who is always in danger [and] makeshaste in what he does.” (NYGS, 1978, Letter 610, 1889).In December of 1889, van Gogh had another attack followed by stillanother in January of 1990 and a third a few weeks later. During his lastweek in Saint R ́emy, he finished four still lifes with flowers. He had alreadytold Theo that he wanted to move to Auvers. In Saint R ́emy, where he hadlived for a year, he was overwhelmed by “boredom and grief” (de Leeuw,1997, p. 485). He went to Auvers-sur-Oise via Paris because he wanted tomeet his new sister-in-law who had recently married Theo, as well as theirson, named after Vincent. Johanna van Gogh was surprised to see not a sickman but a “sturdy broad-shouldered man, with a healthy colour, a smile onhis face and a very resolute appearance” (de Leeuw, 1997, p. 488). Van Goghwas very happy to see Theo and Theo’s family but he worried about hisbrother’s chronic cough. He left Paris after three days and went to Auverswhere he was put in the care of Dr. Gachet, a psychiatrist, homeopathicphysician and amateur artist.Van Gogh’s output during what would be the last two months of hislife was remarkable. In July, he wrote to Theo: