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. It was now that he acquired his fondness for what was characteristically Mediterranean in the region: the cypress trees, the olive groves and the sparse vegetation on the hills.

The series of olive groves harks back to Arles. At that time van Gogh painted fruit trees in blossom, using nicely nuanced lighting and subtle colour combinations to approximate a Japanese ideal. The principle of light emanating from within survived into the fifteen Saint-Rémy paintings of olive trees.

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	Starry Night June 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 74 x 92 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York
	Cypresses June 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 93 x 74 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Green Wheat Field with Cypress June 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 74 x 93 cm Národní Galerie, Prague
	Cypresses with Two Female Figures June 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
	Wheat Field with Cypresses September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm National Gallery, London
	Fir-woods at Sunset November 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
	Cypresses and Two Women February 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 44 x 27 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
	Cottages and Cypresses: Memories of the North March-April 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas on panel, 29 x 37 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
	Landscape with Couple Walking and Crescent Moon May 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 50 x 46 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo
	Olive Grove June 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 93 cm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
	Olive Grove June 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 92 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
	The Olive Trees June-July 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 91 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York
	Olive Orchards: Bright Blue Sky Autumn 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 49 x 63 cm National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
	Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun November 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 74 x 93 cm Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
	Olive Orchards against a Slope of a Hill November-December 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 34 x 40 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
	Olive Picking December 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 90 cm Private collection
	Olive Grove with Picking Figures December 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
	Olive Picking December 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
	Landscape with Trees and Figures November 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore