The Yellow House: Van Gogh Gauguin & Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles" is art critic Martin Gayfords account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh & Paul Gauguin shared a house in the small French town of Arles. Two artistic giants. One small house. From October to December 1888 a pair of at the time largely unknown artists lived under one roof in the French provincial town of Arles. Paul Gauguin & Vincent Van Gogh ate drank talked argued slept & painted in one of the most intense & astonishing creative outpourings in history. Yet as the weeks passed Van Gogh buckles under the strain fought with his companion & committed an act of violence on himself that prompted Gauguin to flee without saying goodbye to his friend. " The Yellow House" is an intimate portrait of their time together as well as a subtle exploration of a fragile friendship art madness genius behind a shocking act of self-mutilation that the world has sought to explain ever since. " Gayfords fascinating depiction of the Odd Couple of art history is both moving & riveting". (" Daily Mail"). " Masterly...a wonderfully alert & moving portrait". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Profoundly absorbing. Gayford has reconstructed these tumultuous weeks...the reader lives them day by day almost minute by minute. Delightful utterly fascinating". (" Independent on Sunday"). Martin Gayford is a celebrated art critic & journalist who has written for the " Spectator" & the " Sunday Telegraph" & is the current Chief European Art Critic for Bloomberg. In his other book " Constable in Love: Love" Landscape Money & the Making of a Great Painter" Gayford tells the true story of Romantic painter John Constables life & loves."