Racines d'arbres
Tree Roots
About the painting
Racines d'arbres est le dernier tableau peint par le peintre néerlandais Vincent van Gogh le jour même de sa tentative de suicide à Auvers-sur-Oise, en France, le 27 juillet 1890, des suites de laquelle il succomba deux jours plus tard. Il est conservé au musée Van Gogh d'Amsterdam.
Le tableau est un exemple des tableaux au format en double carré qu'il utilise pour ses derniers paysages.
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- s0195V1962
Pendant ce temps, chez Vincent van Gogh
La vie entièreFebruary 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
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