''Thatched Cottages and Houses'' is an oil painting by
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...
that he painted in May 1890 when he lived in
Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in
Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, after he left
the asylum
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in
Saint-Rémy in May 1890.
''Thatched Cottages and Houses'' is thought to be the study he mentions in his letter of 21 May 1890 to his brother
Theo
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and wife
Jo immediately after arriving in Auvers:"... when I wrote to you I hadn’t yet done anything. Now I have a study of old thatched roofs with a field of peas in flower and some wheat in the foreground, hilly background. A study which I think you’ll like."
Hulsker believes the painting is amongst a group of 20 or so works executed by Vincent immediately after his arrival in Auvers, May 20, and the remainder of the month:" ... we immediately see in this painting the bright colours that, generally speaking, are characteristic of the Auvers period and differentiate them somewhat from the paintings done in Saint-Rémy - although there is naturally no question of a real break with the past from one week to the next."
The painting is in the collection of the
State Hermitage Museum,
St. Petersburg
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.
See
Van Gogh, Artistic breakthrough and final years, Auves-sur-Oise
See also
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''Cottages'' series
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Houses at Auvers
''Houses at Auvers'' is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It was created towards the end of May or beginning of June 1890, shortly after he had moved to Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town northwest of Paris, France.
His move was prompted by his d ...
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Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
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List of works by Vincent van Gogh
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Postimpressionism
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction aga ...
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''Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Remy'' series.
References
External links
1890 paintings
Paintings by Vincent van Gogh
Paintings of Auvers-sur-Oise by Vincent van Gogh
Paintings in the Hermitage Museum
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