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''A Wind-Beaten Tree'' or ''A Windswept Tree'' is an
oil painting Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...
created in August 1883 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 ...
. It was painted early in his artistic career, whilst he was living in
The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...
. It was stolen from a private collection in Zurich in 1997 and has not been recovered.


See also

* List of works by Vincent van Gogh *
List of stolen paintings Many valuable paintings have been stolen. The paintings listed are from masters of Western art which are valued in millions of U.S. dollars. Unrecovered Rumored to be destroyed or lost Plundered by the Nazis Recovered See also *Art ...


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* Paintings by Vincent van Gogh 1883 paintings Stolen works of art {{19C-painting-stub