1890, Vincent van Gogh, Cypresses with two figures -- Kroller-Muller Museum (Otterlo)
From the museum label: Two women walk amidst a typical Provençal landscape with a blue sky and a row of majestic cypresses. However, this work is not about the women, but about the row of trees behind them: 'The cypresses still preoccupy me', writes Van Gogh to his brother Theo, 'It's beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk. And the green has such a distinguished quality.' He describes the cypress as a dark patch in a sun-drenched landscape. The thick layer of paint with which he renders the trees in this painting reinforces that effect. Van Gogh only added the two figures later, before giving the painting to the Parisian art critic Albert Aurier, who is the first to write enthusiastically about his work.
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1890, Vincent van Gogh, Cypresses with two figures -- Kroller-Muller Museum (Otterlo)
From the museum label: Two women walk amidst a typical Provençal landscape with a blue sky and a row of majestic cypresses. However, this work is not about the women, but about the row of trees behind them: 'The cypresses still preoccupy me', writes Van Gogh to his brother Theo, 'It's beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk. And the green has such a distinguished quality.' He describes the cypress as a dark patch in a sun-drenched landscape. The thick layer of paint with which he renders the trees in this painting reinforces that effect. Van Gogh only added the two figures later, before giving the painting to the Parisian art critic Albert Aurier, who is the first to write enthusiastically about his work.
Link to a high-resolution close-up photo of details from this painting.
Link to other van Gogh paintings.