1889, Vincent van Gogh, Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: The allure of capturing the "changing beauty" of nature gave deciduous trees an edge over the emblematic evergreens in early October as Van Gogh sought to branch out his work with more striking autumnal effects. He seems to have parlayed his preoccupation with the cypresses into this "study of two yellow poplars on a background of mountains," casting the tall, slender trees, ablaze with the fiery colors of fall, into the mold of his flamelike cypresses and making them a "little abstract." The hewn and sawn stones in the foreground identify the site as one of the various quarries near the asylum at the foot of the Alpilles.
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1889, Vincent van Gogh, Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: The allure of capturing the "changing beauty" of nature gave deciduous trees an edge over the emblematic evergreens in early October as Van Gogh sought to branch out his work with more striking autumnal effects. He seems to have parlayed his preoccupation with the cypresses into this "study of two yellow poplars on a background of mountains," casting the tall, slender trees, ablaze with the fiery colors of fall, into the mold of his flamelike cypresses and making them a "little abstract." The hewn and sawn stones in the foreground identify the site as one of the various quarries near the asylum at the foot of the Alpilles.
Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses.”
Link to other van Gogh paintings