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Artist | Vincent van Gogh |
Year | 1890 |
Catalogue | F793; JH2114 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 50.2 cm × 100.3 cm (19.7 in × 39.5 in) |
Location | The National Gallery, London |
Farms near Auvers or Thatched Cottages by a Hill is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he painted in July 1890 when he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The painting is an example of the double-square canvases that he employed in his last landscapes.
Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, after he left an asylum at Saint-Rémy in May 1890. Shortly after arriving at Auvers, Van Gogh wrote his sister Wil: "Here there are roofs of mossy thatch which are superb, and of which I’ll certainly do something." The painting appears to be unfinished. It is similar to Thatched Cottages and Houses, a painting thought to have been executed shortly after arrival at Auvers. In 1933 the painting was bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop to the Tate Collection in London, though it is currently on loan to The National Gallery. It was painted the same month Van Gogh died.
See also
- Auvers size 30 canvases
- Cottages (Van Gogh series)
- Double-square painting
- Houses at Auvers
- Impressionism
- List of works by Vincent van Gogh
- Peasant Character Studies (Van Gogh series)
- Postimpressionism
- Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy (Van Gogh series)
References
- van der Veen, Wouter; Knapp, Peter (2010). Van Gogh in Auvers: His Last Days. The Monacelli Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-58093-301-8.
- de la Faille, Jacob Baart (1970). The works of Vincent van Gogh. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff. p. 303. OCLC 300160639.
- Hulsker, Jan (1986). The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches. Random House. p. 476. ISBN 0-517-44867-X.
- Naifeh, Steven; White Smith, Gregory (2011). Van Gogh: The Life. Random House. p. 822 ff. ISBN 978-0-375-50748-9.
- "To Willemien van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, on or about Wednesday, 21 May 1890". Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
- ^ "Farms near Auvers, 1890". Tate Collection. Tate Museum Online. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
- Brooks, D. "The Paintings: The Auvers-sur-Oise Period". The Vincent van Gogh Gallery, endorsed by Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. David Brooks (self-published). Retrieved 16 February 2011.
External links
Media related to Thatched cottages by a hill (Vincent van Gogh, 1890) at Wikimedia Commons
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