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GOGH, Vincent van (b. 1853, Groot Zundert, d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise) |
Mountainous Landscape behind Saint-Paul HospitalJune 1889, Saint-RémyOil on canvas, 71 x 89 cm Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen | |
Catalogue numbers: F 611, JH 1723. Living in the asylum in Saint-Rémy, van Gogh repeatedly turned his attention to the no-man's-land between the wide world out there and his own confined world. When he looked across the low wall that enclosed the asylum, he found a whole world of subjects awaiting him. There was a range of hills, the Alpilles, with countless olive trees at their feet and an occasional solitary cypress crowning them to counteract the gentle ups and downs of the hills with a bold vertical. |
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