Writer Анри Перрюшо, known for the monographs about life and work of the French artists-impressionists successfully combines in the novels fiction liveliness of narration with authenticity of facts, trying to understand the features of work of painters and epoch. In the monograph about a famous artist Vincent Van Gog an author traced the creative way of artist, process of his professional forming in detail. In unique documents, remembrances of contemporaries, letter, are used a book.