Date : 1888
Dimensions : 92 cm x 73 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection (1933)
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French Painting
Painting (Paysage)
Area related
Arles (France)
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In anticipation of Gauguin's arrival in Arles, van Gogh embarked on a number of paintings intended for Gauguin's bedroom. Four of these works depict the Poet's Garden, a small, enclosed public park directly in front of the Yellow House. "I have tried to distill in the decoration ... the immutable character of this country," van Gogh wrote to Gauguin, noting further that he had sought to picture the motif "in such a way that one is put in mind of the old poet from these parts (or rather from Avignon), Petrarch, and of the new poet from these parts — Paul Gauguin."
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