1890, Vincent van Gogh, Reminiscence of Brabant -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Van Gogh experienced a long-lasting bout of illness in late February 1890, just when his reputation and the estimation of his cypresses were on the rise, and poised to soar to new heights with the debut of this signature motif at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. During a brief respite around the time of the opening on March 20, his artistic impulse kicked in. He gave unguarded currency to images from his earlier Dutch work in a group of landscapes that edge their way into Provençal territory - as in this painting, in which cypresses hover, spiraling upward at left. Describing it later to his mother and sister, Van Gogh wrote: "While my illness was at its worst, I still painted, among other things, a reminiscence of Brabant, cottages with mossy roofs and beech hedges on an autumn evening with a stormy sky, the sun setting red in reddish clouds."
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1890, Vincent van Gogh, Reminiscence of Brabant -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Van Gogh experienced a long-lasting bout of illness in late February 1890, just when his reputation and the estimation of his cypresses were on the rise, and poised to soar to new heights with the debut of this signature motif at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. During a brief respite around the time of the opening on March 20, his artistic impulse kicked in. He gave unguarded currency to images from his earlier Dutch work in a group of landscapes that edge their way into Provençal territory - as in this painting, in which cypresses hover, spiraling upward at left. Describing it later to his mother and sister, Van Gogh wrote: "While my illness was at its worst, I still painted, among other things, a reminiscence of Brabant, cottages with mossy roofs and beech hedges on an autumn evening with a stormy sky, the sun setting red in reddish clouds."
Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses.”
Link to other van Gogh paintings