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20/04/2024

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Landscape with a Stack of Peat and Farmhouses

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Drenthe, September-December 1883

The dark structure in the middle of the drawing looks like a cottage, but it is actually a stack of peat. In Drenthe, peat was stacked in the form of a house with a sloping roof. Van Gogh gave the stack of peat a central place in his composition and showed its reflection in the ditch.

He wrote to his brother Theo that at dusk the fields of Drenthe were transformed into a 'sublime' place, 'when that vast, sun-scorched earth stands out dark against the delicate lilac tints of the evening sky, and the very last fine dark blue line on the horizon separates earth from sky'.

19/04/2024

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In the Café: Agostina Segatori in Le Tambourin

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, January-March 1887

Agostina Segatori was the owner of the Café du Tambourin. She had a brief relationship with Van Gogh. There is a glass of beer on the table, and Agostina holds a lit cigarette. The saucers under the glass on the table betray the fact that she is on her second beer. Drinking and smoking in a café was not appropriate for respectable ladies. That way of life was associated with artistic types and prostitutes.

Van Gogh had organized an exhibition at the café to sell his collection of Japanese prints. Japanese prints can be seen in the background of this portrait. He may have painted Agostina during the exhibition.

18/04/2024

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Impasse des Deux Frères

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, February-April 1887

Van Gogh painted this scene of a street in the middle of the lively Montmartre district. The unpaved street has stone gutters, represented by blue stripes. The mill on wheels in the centre was probably a movable billboard.

There were several real mills on the hill of Montmartre in Paris, and one is visible in the background (the Moulin à Poivre). In Van Gogh's day, these mills were no longer in operation but served as an entertainment venue and tourist attraction. The entrances were decorated with flags.

17/04/2024

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Head of a Man

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Nuenen, March-May 1885

To practise portraying peasant types, Van Gogh aimed to paint at least 50 different heads. He began the project in October 1884, on the advice of an artist friend. This Head of a Man is one of the last in the series.

The name and identity of the man are unknown. Van Gogh’s letters tell us little about his models. We only know that he found them in Nuenen, where he had returned to live temporarily with his parents.

16/04/2024

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Gauguin's Chair

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, November 1888

This painting of Paul Gauguin's chair is a 'portrait' of Van Gogh's friend and fellow artist. The modern novels and burning candle on the green seat cushion symbolize the character of the absent painter.

Using mainly red and green hues, Van Gogh tried to suggest the mood of night. He also painted a pendant of this work with a daytime atmosphere: his own simple peasant chair in bright yellow and blue. The two paintings represent the different personalities of the two artists, who quarrelled and went their separate ways soon afterwards.

Van Gogh skilfully captured the bluish shadows and reflected light on the polished wood of the chair. These were created by the gas lighting (a gas lamp can be seen in the background).

15/04/2024

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Gate in the Paris Ramparts

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, June-September 1887

In the summer of 1887, Van Gogh made four watercolour drawings of the city walls around Paris. This is most likely the Porte de Clichy – one of 25 gates leading into the French capital.

The lively cityscape is filled with little figures and details like the horse-drawn tram. Van Gogh drew inspiration for this drawing from the crowded street scenes in Japanese prints. The bright colours of those prints also stimulated his creativity.

This cityscape is one of the few drawings he made in Paris. He mostly worked in oil paint on canvas during his time there and developed a brighter, more modern colour palette. Colour and brightness also play a central role in this watercolour drawing.

14/04/2024

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Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières)(1887)

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

In technique, Fishing in Spring is a testament to Vincent van Gogh’s friendship with Paul Signac. Van Gogh had seen works by Signac and Georges Seurat in the spring of 1886 at the final Impressionist exhibition. Signac was an eloquent spokesman for Seurat’s pioneering Neo-Impressionism, explaining it as a natural development of Impressionism.

Under Signac’s influence, Van Gogh’s palette brightened, his brushstrokes became more varied, and his subject matter expanded.

The setting of this work is the Seine River at the Pont de Clichy, near Asnières, where Van Gogh and Signac painted together on several occasions.

13/04/2024

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Field with Irises near Arles

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, May 1888

Van Gogh was captivated by the colours of the landscape around the town of Arles (FR). He particularly loved the contrast between the yellow and purple flowers in the fields.

In the landscape, he felt he could see a reflection of the world he knew from his collection of Japanese prints. Japanese artists used large areas of colour in their compositions, often with a sharp diagonal. They also regularly zoomed in on a detail in the foreground. Van Gogh adopted these elements in his paintings. It was just like 'a Japanese dream,' he wrote in a letter to his brother Theo.

The painting was recently examined and restored. In the process, the old discoloured varnish layer which had dulled the colours was removed. The colours are now much brighter.

12/04/2024

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Entrance to a Quarry

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, June 1889

Vincent intended his painting Entrance to a Quarry to be 'matt in colour without looking impressive'. It was the first time since moving to France that he returned to a muted colour palette. In the Netherlands, he had always used sober colours. But since then, he had adopted the bright hues of the Impressionists. This painting turned out very differently from his Dutch works, however, because he used different pigments.

While working on this painting, Van Gogh was not feeling well: he sensed an attack of his illness coming on. Nonetheless, he was pleased with the result: 'there's something sad in [it] that's healthy, and that's why it doesn't annoy me.'

11/04/2024

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Cottages

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Nieuw Amsterdam, September-November 1883

Van Gogh painted Cottages in 1883, while staying in the village of Nieuw-Amsterdam in Drenthe. He wrote enthusiastically to his brother how ‘inexpressibly beautiful’ it was there. But, he added, ‘you can’t see that yet in my studies at all’. He still had ‘to learn a lot more’. In this picture, he is practising how to convey the contrast between a dark foreground and a light sky.

The paint on this canvas contains a lot of sand. It must have blown onto it while Van Gogh was working outdoors. If you zoom in, you can see the bright grains against the dark paint.

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