To escape harassment from local inhabitants van Gogh left Arles in May 1889 and moved into a sanatorium (an asylum), Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, in the nearby village of Saint-Rémy. There he hoped he would be able to work quietly and have medical supervision in case of a recurrence of his epilepsy.

In the beginning of his treatment in the asylum van Gogh did not leave the institute, he found his subjects in its vast garden; he painted the irises and lilac in flower. The low wall that enclosed the asylum remained for weeks the mental borderline that he would not cross.

Later, unlike his fellow inmates, van Gogh had not been committed to the asylum. He could leave the cloistered halls once the day's work was done and retire to his cell. He needed subjects, so he repeatedly turned his attention to the no-man's-land between the wide world out there and his own confined world.

Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	The Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital May 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 95 x 76 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo	800*1004 True Color 268 Kb
	Irises May 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 71 x 93 cm Private collection	1300*1009 True Color 240 Kb
	Lilac Bush May 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 92 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg	1069*850 True Color 235 Kb
	The Iris May 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on paper on canvas, 62 x 48 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa	900*1140 True Color 242 Kb
	The Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital October 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 65 x 49 cm Private collection	842*1100 True Color 235 Kb
	Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital October 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm Private collection	1034*1300 True Color 239 Kb
	Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital October 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 90 x 73 cm Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles	865*1100 True Color 217 Kb
	The Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital November 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 93 cm Museum Folkwang, Essen	1137*900 True Color 270 Kb
	The Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital December 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 91 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	1157*900 True Color 230 Kb
	Meadow in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital May 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm National Gallery, London	1010*800 True Color 222 Kb
	The Enclosed Field at Sunrise May-June 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 93 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo	1159*900 True Color 243 Kb
	Mountainous Landscape behind Saint-Paul Hospital June 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 71 x 89 cm Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen	1222*950 True Color 245 Kb
	Field with Poppies June 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 71 x 91 cm Kunsthalle, Bremen	1300*1013 True Color 242 Kb
	Wheatfield with Reaper at Sunrise September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	1266*1000 True Color 250 Kb
	Farmer in a field September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm Private collection	1200*927 True Color 221 Kb
	View of the Asylum and the Chapelle de Saint-Rémy Autumn 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 45 x 60 cm Private collection	1200*879 True Color 200 Kb
	Enclosed Wheat Field with Peasant October 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 74 x 92 cm Museum of Art, Indianapolis	1238*1000 True Color 247 Kb
	The Road Menders November 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 74 x 92 cm Museum of Art, Cleveland	1234*1000 True Color 208 Kb
	The Ravine 'Les Peiroulets' December 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 92 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo	1014*800 True Color 265 Kb
	A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul December 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo	1020*800 True Color 163 Kb
	Two Diggers among Trees March-April 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 62 x 44 cm Institute of Arts, Detroit	1000*1200 True Color 246 Kb
	Green Wheat Fields May 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 93 cm Private collection	1301*1000 True Color 219 Kb