This spring-cleaning moment also brought back how much I appreciate working in light, bright and attractive spaces, the kinds of places where Ipainted and made jewelry.
Van Gogh wrote about the wrestlers picture -- which he painted as an assignment during his studies at the art academy in Antwerp -- in a letter in January 1886: "This week Ipainted a large thing with two nude torsos -- two wrestlers, " adding that he was delighted with the result.