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	Info
	The Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital May 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 95 x 76 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
	Irises May 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 71 x 93 cm Private collection
	Lilac Bush May 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 92 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
	The Iris May 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on paper on canvas, 62 x 48 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
	The Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital October 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 65 x 49 cm Private collection
	Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital October 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm Private collection
	Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital October 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 90 x 73 cm Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles
	The Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital November 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 93 cm Museum Folkwang, Essen
	The Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital December 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 91 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
	Meadow in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital May 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm National Gallery, London
	The Enclosed Field at Sunrise May-June 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 93 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
	Mountainous Landscape behind Saint-Paul Hospital June 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 71 x 89 cm Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
	Field with Poppies June 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 71 x 91 cm Kunsthalle, Bremen
	Wheatfield with Reaper at Sunrise September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
	Farmer in a field September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm Private collection
	View of the Asylum and the Chapelle de Saint-Rémy Autumn 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 45 x 60 cm Private collection
	Enclosed Wheat Field with Peasant October 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 74 x 92 cm Museum of Art, Indianapolis
	The Road Menders November 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 74 x 92 cm Museum of Art, Cleveland
	The Ravine 'Les Peiroulets' December 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 92 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
	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
	Two Diggers among Trees March-April 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 62 x 44 cm Institute of Arts, Detroit
	Green Wheat Fields May 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 93 cm Private collection