Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)
The Plains at Auvers, 1890
Oil on canvas, 50 x 101 cm
"..for one's health, as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and to see the flowers growing. I myself am quite absorbed in that immense plain with wheat fields up as far as the hills, boundless as the ocean, delicate yellow, delicate soft green, the delicate purple of a tilled and weeded piece of ground, with the regular speckle of the green of flowering potato plants, everything under a sky of delicate tones of blue, white, pink and violet. I am in a mood of almost too much calm, just the mood needed for painting this." - Vincent van Gogh to his Mother and Sister. Auvers-sur-Oise. Jul 10-14, 1890.
It is as trite by now to say that Van Gogh was one of the sanest artists who ever lived...
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