Print of Vincent van Gogh - Olive trees with yellow sky and sun - 1889
Vincent van Gogh - Olive trees with yellow sky and sun
Year: 1889 - oil on canvas cm 92.71x73.66
Preserved at: Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
This is one of the fifteen olive tree canvases that Vincent van Gogh painted between June and December of 1889.
Vincent van Gogh wrote: "The effect of daylight and the sky means that there are infinite topics to be found in olive trees. As for me, I look for the contrasting effects of the foliage, which changes with the tones of the sky. Sometimes, when the tree bares its pale flowers, large blue flies, emerald beetles and cicadas fly up there, all immersed in pure blue. Then, as the foliage takes on more mature tones, the sky is radiant and streaked with green and orange and then again, in autumn, the leaves take on purple tones of the color of a ripe fig and this purple effect is fully manifested with the contrast of the great sun in its pale halo of lemon light. "
