GOGH, Vincent van
(b. 1853, Groot Zundert, d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise)

Old Farmhouses in Auvers

May 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise
Oil 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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