View of the Field behind Saint Paul’s Asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1889
Vincent van Goghexpand_more
Graphite on buff wove paperexpand_more
Gift of Ruth and Bruce Daytonexpand_more 2001.144
Not on Viewexpand_more
Suffering from increasingly acute attacks of mental illness, Vincent van Gogh voluntarily entered an asylum in the spring of 1889, just over a year before his suicide. The hospital of Saint Paul’s was in a 12th-century monastery in the countryside near Arles, in southern France. This view of wheat fields was likely the one van Gogh saw from his small cell in the asylum. He focused on the sparseness of the environment and texture of the wheat grass. Using the field’s walled enclosure and distant horizon, he convincingly structured the space in perspective and simultaneously evoked the vastness and loneliness of the rural landscape.
Details
- Title
- View of the Field behind Saint Paul’s Asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
- Artist Life
- 1853 - 1890
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2001.144
- Provenance
- The artist's brother, Theo van Gogh, Paris (1890-d.1891); his widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam (1891-d.1925); her son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Amsterdam (1925-1942; gave to neighbor); private collection (May 12, 1942-1997; lent to Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1988-1997; sold to Dickinson Roundell); [Dickinson Roundell, New York 1997-2000; exhibited at Maastricht fair, 2000]; [Brame & Lorenceau, Paris; until 2001, sold to Dayton]; Ruth and Bruce Dayton, Wayzata, Minn. (2001; given to MIA).
- Catalogue Raisonne
- De La Faille no. 1559
- Curator Approved
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