1888, Vincent van Gogh, Pink peach trees ('Souvenir de Mauve') -- Kroller-Muller Museum (Otterlo)
From the museum label: During the blossom time in Arles, Van Gogh works for almost four weeks constantly on a series of fruit trees in bloom. He already became interested in this subject in Paris, influenced by Japanese prints. He decides to dedicate Pink peach trees, which he considers the best in the series, to the recently deceased Anton Mauve: his teacher and cousin by marriage. He feels that a painting dedicated to him should be 'something that was both tender and very cheerful' and not 'a study in a more serious key'. Theo sends the painting to Mauve's widow, their niece Jet, from whom Anton and Helene Kröller-Müller purchase it in 1918.
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1888, Vincent van Gogh, Pink peach trees ('Souvenir de Mauve') -- Kroller-Muller Museum (Otterlo)
From the museum label: During the blossom time in Arles, Van Gogh works for almost four weeks constantly on a series of fruit trees in bloom. He already became interested in this subject in Paris, influenced by Japanese prints. He decides to dedicate Pink peach trees, which he considers the best in the series, to the recently deceased Anton Mauve: his teacher and cousin by marriage. He feels that a painting dedicated to him should be 'something that was both tender and very cheerful' and not 'a study in a more serious key'. Theo sends the painting to Mauve's widow, their niece Jet, from whom Anton and Helene Kröller-Müller purchase it in 1918.
Link to other van Gogh paintings