This tealight was created for the exhibition "Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise The Final Months" from October 3rd, 2023 to February 4th, 2024 at the musée d'Orsay.
The tealight is illustrated with a detail from the work by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, Auvers-sur-Oise, July...
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This tealight was created for the exhibition "Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise The Final Months" from October 3rd, 2023 to February 4th, 2024 at the musée d'Orsay.
The tealight is illustrated with a detail from the work by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, Auvers-sur-Oise, July 1890.
In the last weeks of his life, Van Gogh completed a number of impressive paintings of the wheatfields around Auvers. This outspread field under a dark sky is one of them.
In these landscapes he tried to express 'sadness, extreme loneliness'. But the overwhelming emotions that Van Gogh experienced in nature were also positive. He wrote to his brother Theo, 'I'd almost believe that these canvases will tell you what I can't say in words, what I consider healthy and fortifying about the countryside.'
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
© Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
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