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Les Chaumières à Auvers-sur-Oise est un tableau de Vincent van Gogh conservé au musée de l'Ermitage de Saint-Pétersbourg. Il a été peint à Auvers-sur-Oise en mai 1890 quelque temps avant la mort de l'artiste.
Ce tableau faisait partie de la collection de Sergueï Chtchoukine nationalisée après la Révolution d'Octobre. Il a d'abord été exposé, de 1919 à 1929, à Moscou au palais Troubetskoï, qui abritait le musée d'art moderne occidental, puis est entré au second musée d'art moderne occidental réinstallé dans l'ancien hôtel particulier d'Ivan Morozov à Moscou. Enfin il est entré en 1948 dans les collections du musée de l'Ermitage.
Cette œuvre reflète l'intensité dramatique que l'artiste ressentait alors. Il reprend ce sujet en juillet dans Chaumières sur une colline (tableau conservé à la Tate Britain).
Картина была написана в Овере, незадолго до ухода Ван Гога из жизни. Мотив с крестьянскими хижинами неоднократно привлекал художника. "На мой взгляд, самое замечательное из того, что я знаю в области архитектуры, - это хижины с крышей из обомшелой соломы и закопченным очагом", - писал Ван Гог в одном из писем. Крыши, крытые соломой, составляют такую же органичную часть природы, как холмы, поля и небо. Холмистый рельеф реальной натуры дал живописцу возможность выявить и усилить динамику пространства. Напряженные, частью волнообразные мазки и линии не только передают спады и подъемы, но и создают экспрессию, которая усиливается цветовыми контрастами. Эта живопись создана кистью, выразившей мятущуюся душу художника, его драматическое мироощущение.
February 1888
To Arles, dreaming of a “Studio of the South”
The public still neither accepted nor bought his paintings, and in February 1888 Van Gogh left for Arles in the south of France to found a “Studio of the South”, a brotherhood of like-minded artists in which he gave Gauguin the leading role. Theo backed the plan with money.
23 October 1888
Gauguin arrives in Arles
After much pleading Gauguin arrived in Arles, and in November the two painted together: Gauguin portrayed Van Gogh in “The Painter of Sunflowers”, and their first joint outing was to the Alyscamps. At Gauguin's suggestion Vincent painted from memory, producing “Memory of the Garden at Etten”.
23 December 1888
The severed ear
After an altercation on the evening of 23 December, Van Gogh, seemingly hearing voices, severed his left ear, wholly or in part, with a razor and delivered it, wrapped in paper, to a woman at a brothel. Next morning a policeman found him unconscious; in hospital he was diagnosed with “acute mania with generalised delirium”.
May 1889
Voluntarily into the Saint-Paul asylum
Van Gogh left Arles and voluntarily entered the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum, a former monastery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, accompanied by the Protestant clergyman Frédéric Salles. Of his two cells with barred windows one became a studio, and the clinic and its garden became the main subjects of his paintings.
27 July 1890
Musée de l'Ermitage
A fatal wound: a revolver shot
Out painting, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver he had bought to scare off birds while working outdoors; the bullet passed below his heart, and he made his own way back to his room at the inn. Theo arrived the next day and stayed with him to the end; according to Theo, Vincent's last words were: “The sadness will last forever.”
29 juillet 1890
Died
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Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie
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