{"id":"1218","title":"Olive Trees","medium":"Oil on canvas","classification":" Paintings","dimension":"29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.66 x 92.71 cm) (canvas)\r\n39 3/4 x 47 x 3 1/2 in. (100.97 x 119.38 x 8.89 cm) (outer frame)\r\n46 3/8 in. (117.79 cm) (diagonal)\r\n28 1/2 x 36 in. (72.39 x 91.44 cm) (sight)","object_name":"Painting","continent":"Europe","country":"Netherlands","culture":null,"dated":"1889","room":"G355","style":"19th century","inscription":"Reverse of the lining fabric, inscription in black paint: K.O.","signed":"","markings":"(Stencil on the reverse of the lining fabric)","text":"This is one of fifteen canvases of olive trees that van Gogh executed between June and December of 1889. Earlier that year he had interned himself in the asylum of St-Paul, in the town of St-Rémy in southern France, where he would create his most profound works. The vibrant oranges and yellows suggest that the picture dates to the autumn months. Van Gogh left St-Rémy in May 1890, moving to Auvers, near Paris, where he continued to paint until his death by suicide in July.","description":"Landscape of grove of olive trees and their cast shadows in foreground, mountain looms in background, intense sun and dazzling light dominates the sky. No signature.","provenance":"","portfolio":null,"creditline":"The William Hood Dunwoody Fund","accession_number":"51.7","artist":"Artist: Vincent van Gogh","role":"Artist","nationality":"Dutch","life_date":"Dutch, 1853 - 1890","image_copyright":"","department":"European Art","rights_type":"Public Domain","image":"valid","image_width":10501,"image_height":8342,"restricted":0,"public_access":"1","curator_approved":0,"catalogue_raissonne":null,"art_champions_text":null,"see_also":[""],"list:aib-2021-selections":true,"list:handbook":true,"related:audio-stops":[{"title":"Vincent van Gogh, Olive Trees","_id":"1218","objectId":"1218","link":"http://audio-tours.s3.amazonaws.com/p741.mp3","number":"741","type":"audio"}],"related:artstories":[{"title":"Olive Trees","_id":"1218","objectId":"1218","description":"
He had wandered all his life, from the Netherlands to Belgium to Paris, before settling in the south of France in February 1888. Van Gogh came in search of sun, new light to drive his interest in color, and to establish a community of artists. He invited the painter Paul Gauguin to join this “Studio of the South.” Just two months after Gauguin’s arrival, Van Gogh suffered a breakdown. He sliced off part of his own ear, and a terrified Gauguin promptly left, never to return. By May 1889, little more than a year after arriving in the south, Van Gogh had checked himself into Saint-Paul Asylum in Saint-Rémy, where he spent months studying and painting the asylum’s olive groves.
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