Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, 1853–1890
Born in Zundert; died in Auvers-sur-Oise.
Van Gogh worked as an art dealer, teacher and lay preacher before he turned to art in 1880, at twenty-seven. His early pictures of Dutch peasants are dark and heavy; in Paris from 1886 he met the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists, and his palette brightened. In Arles in 1888–89 he painted with intense colour and thick, directional strokes, and he worked on at the asylum in Saint-Rémy and finally at Auvers-sur-Oise. The Poet’s Garden belongs to a group made to decorate Gauguin’s room in the Yellow House.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 14 worksDated 1881–1890
- Mostly
- Paintings, Drawing and Watercolor, Drawings
- Movement
- Post-ImpressionismArtists who kept Impressionism's colour but pushed towards structure, symbol and feeling.
The works
