'The Moon and Sixpence' by Somerset Maugham (chapter 33 - 42)

A month later the writer met Charles Strickland and Blanche (Dirk's wife); the men played chess and the woman neither said a word, nor showed emothion. Dirk still hoped that his wife, quarrelled with Strickland, would come back to him, but that was just a dream. 

   However, several days later, when they quarrelled and Strickland went away from her, Blanche tried to commit suicide taking oxalic acid. She did not die, they took her to the hospital where she did not want to see anybody, especially her husband and Charles. And two weeks later the woman died and Dirk was restless: he dashed around his flat and, founding her picture painted by Strickland, tried to tear it, but could not. Then the man decided to return to his native land Holland and, inspide of everything, asked Charles to come with him.

   Meanwhile, Charles Strickland did not care much about the woman's death, as he lived only his art and that time wanted to show his pictures to the writer. For six years the artist painted about thirty pictures and sold nothing: they had no singularity, each of them was too difficult for understanding. Nevertheless, Dirk Stroeve thought his pictures ans technique would make a revolution in art.