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Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy

1889

Vincent van Gogh

(Dutch, 1853–1890)
Culture
Netherlands
Medium
oil on fabric
Measurements
Framed: 81 x 66.7 x 7.3 cm (31 7/8 x 26 1/4 x 2 7/8 in.); Unframed: 61.6 x 45.7 cm (24 1/4 x 18 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. 1958.32
Public Domain
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Location
222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism
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During his Saint-Rémy period, Van Gogh painted 150 canvases and some 100 drawings. He painted nature as he saw it without enhancement and felt that painting would help cure him of his illness.

Description

Vincent van Gogh painted this autumnal landscape while interned at a psychiatric hospital near Saint-Rémy in southern France. Although initially restricted to painting in his room, he soon resumed working outdoors. This painting reveals the full power of his mature style. Trees twist and lean against a darkening sky, while the intense colors applied with charged brushstrokes convey his emotional reaction to the subject.
Vertically-oriented oil painting with thick strokes and dollops of paint featuring two central orange and green poplar trees against a blue sky and swirling muted green, blue, and cream hills. Side-by-side, the poplar trees are bushy and narrow, thinning towards the top and with the left tree taller than the right. A squared house can be seen in the background through the gap between them. Dark blue paint sketchily outlines the landscape.

Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy

1889

Vincent van Gogh

(Dutch, 1853–1890)
Netherlands

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