Short FilmCamille Pissarro
Van Gogh, Camille Pissarro, Elizabeth Taylor, You
Van Gogh painted this mulberry tree in 1889. Inside an asylum. He wrote about it three times to his brother and sister. Called it one of his best autumn studies. He knew what he had done. Then Pissarro walked into Theo's gallery and traded one of his own paintings for it. Not money. His own work. One master giving up his art because he couldn't walk away from it. Then Elizabeth Taylor. The biggest movie star on the planet had this hanging in her home. She could have picked anything. She picked the tree a locked up man painted while losing his mind. Now it's at the Norton Simon Museum. Behind g
