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The Large Plane Trees  1889

by Vincent van Gogh

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 broth...
Size: 
730 x 91.8 cm
Medium: 
Oil on fabric
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art