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66 Art Works
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by: Vincent Van Gogh
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Vincent Van Gogh
(Dutch, 1853-1890)
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Mountains at Saint-Remy.
1889
Oil on canvas, 71.8 x 90.8 cm (28 1/4 x 35 3/4 in)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
In May 1889 he went at his own request into an asylum at St Rémy, near Arles, but continued during the year he
spent there a frenzied production of tumultuous pictures such as Starry Night (MOMA, New York). He did 150
paintings besides drawings in the course of this year. In 1889 Theo married and in May 1890 van Gogh moved to
Auvers-sur-Oise to be near him, lodging with the patron and connoisseur Dr Paul Gachet. There followed another
tremendous burst of strenuous activity and during the last 70 days of his life he painted 70 canvases. But his
spiritual anguish and depression became more acute and on 29 July 1890 he died from the results of a self-inflicted
bullet wound.
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Village Street in Auvers.
1890
Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm (28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in)
Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki.
Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime (Red Vineyard at Arles; Pushkin Museum, Moscow), and was
little known to the art world at the time of his death, but his fame grew rapidly thereafter. His influence
on Expressionism, Fauvism and early Abstraction was enormous, and it can be seen in many other aspects of
20th-century art. His stormy and dramatic life and his unswerving devotion to his ideals have made him one of
the great cultural heroes of modern times, providing the most auspicious material for the 20th-century vogue
in romanticized psychological biography.
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