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GOGH, Vincent van (b. 1853, Groot Zundert, d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise) |
Old Farmhouses in AuversMay 1890, Auvers-sur-OiseOil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg | |
Catalogue numbers: F 750, JH 1984. In this painting the cottages are crowded up close, as if in need of protection. The painter is keeping his distance, as if he did not wish to intrude too much upon the idyll. The rhetoric of the treatment is as subdued and tranquil as the scene itself. The painter's mood was calmer than in Saint-Rémy. |
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