his balance, alluding to Vincent’s sense of mental instability. In February, 1888 he wrote to his brother Theo:

During my trip I have thought about you, at least as much as the new region I was seeing. I think that perhaps you will come here more often later on. It seems to me it is impossible to work in Paris, unless one has a secluded place where one can recover and regain tranquillity and equilibrium. Without that, one would coarsen fatally [...]

Distéfano interprets this feeling and shows it through the rocking of the chair. The colours of the painting are transferred to the sculpture: the green of the back door and the red of the tiling are added to the yellow, recreated on the character’s body, on the hair and on the flooring. The trellis of brushstrokes on the painting and the wicker chair repeats the textures on the torso, the head and the base of the sculpture.