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| Keywords: Vincent van Gogh - Cypresses.jpg Artwork Creator Vincent van Gogh Cypresses Oil on canvas cm 93 4 74 Metropolitan Museum of Art Van Gogh painted several still lifes of shoes or boots during his Paris period This picture painted later in Arles evinces a unique return to the earlier motif http //www metmuseum org/Collections/search-the-collections/110002434 Metropolitan Museum of Art credit line Rogers Fund 1949 <small> Cypresses was painted in late June 1889 shortly after Van Gogh began his yearlong voluntary stay as a patient in the asylum in Saint-Rémy The subject which he found as beautiful of line and proportion as an Egyptian obelisk both captivated and challenged the artist It is a splash of black in a sunny landscape but it is one of the most interesting black notes and the most difficult to hit off exactly that I can imagine Van Gogh's initial fascination with cypresses resulted in three paintings two showing the big and massive trees at close range in vertical format this and one in the Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo and a majestic horizontal view Wheat Field with Cypresses on view in the adjacent gallery which he later repeated in two variants <ref>http //www metmuseum org/Collections/search-the-collections/110002434 Metropolitan Museum of Art</ref> reflist </small> accession number 49 30 1889 Other versions PD-old-100 Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh Metropolitan Museum of Art | ||||
