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The Large Plane Trees
1889
In May 1889, Van Gogh voluntarily committed himself to an asylum near the small town of Saint-Rémy in Provence. His doctors soon gave him permission to paint on day excursions to surrounding fields. While walking through Saint-Rémy that November, he was impressed by the sight of men repairing a road beneath immense plane trees. "In spite of the cold," he wrote to his brother, "I have gone on working outside till now, and I think it is doing me good and the work too." Rushing to capture the yellowing leaves, he painted this composition on an unusual cloth with a pattern of small red diamonds visible in the picture's many unpainted areas.
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1947.209
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1947.209
- Size:
- 730 x 91.8 cm
- Medium:
- Oil on fabric
- License:
- Courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- For more:
- http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1947.209?f[0]=field_images_…
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