Farms near Auvers | |
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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. [1] [2] The painting is an example of the double-square canvases that he employed in his last landscapes. [3]
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. [4] 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." [5] 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. [6] 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. [6] [7] It was painted the same month Van Gogh died.
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