1890 · 8 Gogh.art nodes
Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: Paintings from the Final Seventy Days
In 1890 Van Gogh spent his final months in Auvers-sur-Oise. The Van Gogh Museum summarizes the extraordinary output as about seventy-five paintings in seventy days; gardens, village houses, wheat fields, the church and tree roots work at different scales of seeing.
- The Colour Experimenter
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Ferocious Reader
- The Copyist
Long-tail intents
- Van Gogh Auvers paintings
- Van Gogh final seventy days paintings
- Van Gogh Auvers wheat fields
Reading this place
Speed is not one emotion
Auvers is often narrated only through final works, but speed is not a single emotion. Gardens, portraits, rural buildings and broad wheat fields use different scales of composition and brushwork.
From village to roots
The church, Dr Gachet, village houses, wheat fields and tree roots show that Auvers is not one subject. The work moves between close view and distance, and between portrait and landscape.
Key artwork paths
Common questions
How long was Van Gogh in Auvers?
He lived in Auvers in the final months of 1890, often described as his final seventy days.
How many paintings did Van Gogh make in Auvers?
The Van Gogh Museum summarizes the period as about seventy-five paintings in seventy days.
Which paintings are connected with Auvers?
The Church at Auvers, portraits of Dr Gachet, wheat fields and tree-root subjects form a core Auvers group.
Sources
The Seventy Days of Auvers
Seventy days, more than eighty paintings: extraordinary output does not by itself tell us a single inner story.
- The Colour Experimenter
- Synaesthetic Precision
The Church at Auvers
The forked road belongs to the painting; the violet and cobalt belong to the letter.
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Colour Experimenter
Doctor Gachet
The painted face is Gachet's; the changing judgment belongs to Vincent's letters.
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Colour Experimenter
Thatched Cottages
An old northern motif, seen in a new place.
- The Colour Experimenter
- Synaesthetic Precision
Daubigny's Garden
The cat was part of the plan, then it disappeared.
- The Copyist
- The Colour Experimenter
Rain over Auvers
The angle at which those lines fall is already speaking, and needs no explanation.
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Colour Experimenter
Tree Roots
No surviving letter explains this picture. That a thing has no footnote does not mean it is incomplete.
- Synaesthetic Precision
The Last Letter
Among the last things he left behind was an unfinished letter that never arrived, beside a completed version that did. This timeline begins with that unfinished draft, and ends with it too. What remains is what we are doing: reading the draft carefully, seeing the unsold paintings through. But a gaze supplied later cannot go back to 1890. What was absent that year remains absent. Harder still, we are absent today as well: people still walk ahead of the old measures, passed over by our politeness, our silence, and our safe taste. That shot did not stop in Auvers. It simply changed hands.
- Synaesthetic Precision