Sunday, August 14, 2022

Vincent in Saint-Rémy
(1889) 


From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA:

Writing to his brother, Theo, from the asylum in Saint-Rémy on July 2, 1889, Van Gogh described his latest addition to the series he had launched that June: "I have a canvas of cypresses with a few ears of wheat, poppies, a blue sky, which is like a multicolored Scotch plaid." Van Gogh regarded this sun-drenched landscape as one of his "best" summer canvases and repeated the composition three times: first in a reed-pen drawing (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) and then in two oil variants he made later that fall (National Gallery, London; private collection).

 
The complete letter: https://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let784/letter.html


Wheat Field with Cypresses, at the Haute Galline Near Eygalieres
late June, 1889
Oil on canvas 
73.0 x 93.5 cm. 

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436535

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