Vincent Van Gogh

with straw hat

Self Portrait with straw hat

Van Gogh painted many self portraits but this one is typical

Self Portrait

Self Portrait with a fedora

The intensity of both these portraits displays not a happy man

Irises

Irises

Just like my own brave border of blue irises

Mountainous Landscape Behind Saint-Paul Hospital

1889

Wild canvases at the Saint-Paul Hospital near St. Remy

Scheveningen sea

The Sea at Scheveningen in the Evening

gloomy but with life

Auvers

The Village of Auvers

Marked with a little of brilliance of madness in which pretence plays no part. The village is sharp against the sky.

Cypress and a starry night

 

A Cypress and starry night

1890

Sunflowers

Sunflowers

He painted many sunflowers to decorate his house in Arles which he expected to share with Paul Gaughin while they founded a new Art school in the town.
The Starry Night

The Starry Night

very like the Starry night above

The Oise at Auvers
The Oise at Auvers
Langlois Bridge

The Langlois Bridge

one of many paintings of this bridge from both sides of the waterway

The Plain near Auvers

The Plain near Auvers

1890

Roses

Roses

1890

Catalogued as his second to last painting

Pine Trees in Saint-Paul Hospital Grounds

Pine Trees in Saint-Paul Hospital Grounds

1890

Courtesan

Courtesan

Van Gogh had a fascination with things Japanese at this time and even copied Hokusai and the technique of outlining used by Japanese artists

Leaving the church

Leaving the Church at Neuen

Van Gogh painted this church many times, near and far, and mostly without people in the scene. They are all dark and foreboding in his early period.

Then come three magnificent landscapes -- all painted at Auvers in 1890 in the last month's of Vincent's life. They are virtually identically sized canvases with different bicolor combinations: yellow and green, blue and green and blue and yellow. They are complemented by sunflowers.
Four cut sunflowers

Landscape at twilight

Landschap bij avondschemering

Wheatfield under thunderclouds

Korenveld onder onweerslucht

Wheatfield with crows

Korenveld met kraaien

Four Cut Sunflowers

Vincent's lifetime inventory of paintings numbers 873 and itis available as an Excel spread sheet from the webmaster.. The inventory includes all dates, details and sizes of the paintings as well as their locations.

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