9 Gogh.art nodes · Saint-Rémy-de-Provence / Auvers-sur-Oise
1890
1890 is the final seventy days in Auvers: speed, farewell, doctor, wheat fields, church, tree roots and rain arrive together.
- The Translator
- The Copyist
- The Colour Experimenter
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Ferocious Reader
Almond Blossom
It was something he gave away, not something kept to be looked at — and that should not be left out.
- The Translator
- The Copyist
The Seventy Days of Auvers
Seventy days, more than eighty paintings. Not a slow ending, but an ever-denser one.
- The Colour Experimenter
- Synaesthetic Precision
The Church at Auvers
The forking road is solid in the painting, never mentioned in the letters. The colour is not naturalistic — and yet truer than naturalism.
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Colour Experimenter
Doctor Gachet
His doctor appears in his painting, wearing the same expression as himself.
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Colour Experimenter
Thatched Cottages
In his final stretch he began to paint the shapes of his early years — only the colours were entirely different.
- The Colour Experimenter
- Synaesthetic Precision
Daubigny's Garden
He added that black cat — but why, no one is sure.
- 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
He wrote no letter explaining this picture. That a thing has no footnote does not mean it is incomplete.
- Synaesthetic Precision
The Last Letter
One of the last things he left behind was a letter that never arrived. This timeline begins with that letter, and ends with it too.
- Synaesthetic Precision