1890, Vincent van Gogh, A Walk at Twilight -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Van Gogh bids farewell to the South of France in a composition that highlights the striking originality and continuity of his artistic vision. The leitmotiv of strolling lovers, pictured here in a Provençal landscape as the last rays of sun inflect the sky with color, takes us on a veritable walk down memory lane to the inspired drawbridge scene he sketched in a letter to Emile Bernard at the onset of his sojourn and the painting made for Gauguin's bedroom in Arles, with the same "pale lemon crescent moon" to signal the coming of night. Navigating the "enchanted ground" of his avant-garde colleagues, Van Gogh drew inspiration for the setting-with its bulbous olive trees framed by spindly cypresses and the flattened stretch of the Alpilles in the background-from a vignette conjured from memory, on the reverse of his double-sided "Reminiscences" drawing nearby.
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1890, Vincent van Gogh, A Walk at Twilight -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Van Gogh bids farewell to the South of France in a composition that highlights the striking originality and continuity of his artistic vision. The leitmotiv of strolling lovers, pictured here in a Provençal landscape as the last rays of sun inflect the sky with color, takes us on a veritable walk down memory lane to the inspired drawbridge scene he sketched in a letter to Emile Bernard at the onset of his sojourn and the painting made for Gauguin's bedroom in Arles, with the same "pale lemon crescent moon" to signal the coming of night. Navigating the "enchanted ground" of his avant-garde colleagues, Van Gogh drew inspiration for the setting-with its bulbous olive trees framed by spindly cypresses and the flattened stretch of the Alpilles in the background-from a vignette conjured from memory, on the reverse of his double-sided "Reminiscences" drawing nearby.
Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses.”
Link to other van Gogh paintings