Garden of the Asylum
Currently on view
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, November 1889
oil on canvas, 72 cm x 91 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation, gift of Paul Gachet jr.)
This painting shows the garden of the clinic in Saint-Rémy where Van Gogh spent a year. He worked there regularly when his illness meant he was not allowed to venture outside. Van Gogh wrote to his friend Bernard about this painting: ‘You’ll understand that this combination of red ochre, of green saddened with grey, of black lines that define the outlines, this gives rise a little to the feeling of anxiety from which some of my companions in misfortune often suffer, and which is called “seeing red”.’
Van Gogh had discovered that he could use colours to express a feeling. He intensified the emotional charge of his works by combining colours to create harmony on the one hand, or contrast on the other.
- F-number
- F0659
- JH-number
- JH1850
- Object number
- s0196V1962
- Dimensions
- 72 cm x 91 cm, 90.7 cm x 109.7 cm, 8.1 cm
- Provenance
- Donated by the artist or his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris to Doctor Gachet, Auvers-sur-Oise, after May 1890; after his death on 9 January 1909 inherited by his son and daughter Paul and Marguerite Gachet, Auvers-sur-Oise; gift of Paul Gachet jr. to the (1st) Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Laren, May 1954; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the (2nd) Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, on 10 July 1962 (ratified 28 December 1970); agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation, gift of Paul Gachet jr.)
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