M_DU_037 COIN DE JARDIN AVEC PAPILLONS _ VINCENT VAN GOGH 1887 / KUMARI VAIM 2025
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Garden Corner with Butterflies (Coin de jardin avec papillons) by Vincent van Gogh, 1887, Private Collection
“Don’t be cross with me that I’ve come all of a sudden. I’ve thought about it so much and I think we’ll save time this way. Will be at the Louvre from midday… We’ll sort things out, you’ll see. So get there as soon as possible,” so Vincent van Gogh told his brother, Theo, of his sudden arrival in Paris at the end of February 1886.
(Letter 567, in L. Jansen, H. Luijten and N. Bakker, eds., op. cit., 2009, vol. 3, p. 362).
Determined to leave Antwerp, where he had been living and working as an art student since November of the previous year, Van Gogh arrived in the city ready “to produce and to be something” (Letter 559, ibid., p. 350).
(Image and text courtesy of Christie's)
Dazzled by the latest artistic developments of the Parisian avant-garde, most notably the radical brushwork and light-filled canvases of the Impressionists and the precise techniques of Pointillism advocated by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, Van Gogh entered a period of intensive experimentation that would ultimately transform his painterly style.
Leaving behind the dark, earthy tones of his realist paintings, he embraced a brighter palette and his handling lightened, becoming more refined and delicate. Nature and the landscape became a central focus, preempting the scenes that would come to the fore when he moved to Arles two years later. Kuva vähem
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