Print of Vincent van Gogh - The church of Auvers-sur-Oise - 1890
Vincent van Gogh - The church of Auvers-sur-Oise
Year: 1890 - oil on canvas cm 74x94
Preserved at: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
Vincent van Gogh left the Saint-Rémy-de-Provence hospital in May 1890 and, after a brief stop in Paris with his brother Theo, went to Auvers-sur-Oise to be treated by Doctor Paul Gachet. Here Vincent van Gogh spent the last ten weeks of his life and frantically painted over one hundred works, including The Church of Auvers-sur-Oise.
Vincent van Gogh spoke of this in a letter to his sister Wilhelmina: “I have a larger image of the village church - with the effect that the building appears to be purple against a sky of simple dark blue, pure cobalt; the windows look like patches of ultramarine blue, the roof is violet and partly orange. In the background, some flowering plants and sand with the pink reflection of the sun. And once again it is similar to the studies I did in Nuenen of the old cemetery tower, only now the color is more expressive, more sumptuous "