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Vincent van Gogh's room in Saint-Paul de Mausole Main article: Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy (Van Gogh series) In the aftermath of the 23 December 1888 breakdown that resulted in the self-mutilation of his left ear, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Vincent van Gogh voluntarily admitted himself to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole lunatic asylum on 8 May 1889.
Van Gogh's room in Saint Paul de Mausole. Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, twelve miles northeast of Arles, lies just outside Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in southern France.Mentioned on several occasions by Nostradamus, who was born nearby and knew it a Franciscan convent, [1] it was originally an Augustinian priory dating from the 12th century, and has a particularly beautiful cloister. [2]
In May 1889 Van Gogh voluntarily entered the asylum of St. Paul near Saint-Rémy in Provence. [2] [3] There Van Gogh had access to an adjacent cell he used as his studio. He was initially confined to the immediate asylum grounds and painted the world he saw from his room, such as ivy covered trees, lilacs, and irises of the garden.
A Wheatfield with Cypresses is any of three similar 1889 oil paintings by Vincent van Gogh, as part of his wheat field series. All were exhibited at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole mental asylum at Saint-Rémy near Arles, France, where Van Gogh was voluntarily a patient from May 1889 to May 1890.
Irises is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Painted in 1889, the work is a landscape with a cropped composition and is one of several hundred paintings from a series of paintings that van Gogh made at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890.
The Mulberry Tree is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch artist.The painting was created in October 1889. The Mulberry Tree is one of several hundred paintings from a series of paintings that van Gogh painted during this time at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890.
Van Gogh was a voluntary patient from May 1889 to May 1890 in the hospital at the Asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, a former monastery at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. [5] One subject of particular interest of Van Gogh during his residence at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole hospital was a field behind the hospital, enclosed by walls, which he depicted in a series of at least 14 paintings and just as many ...
According to Ronald Pickvance, "the view is unique in van Gogh's entire Saint-Remy oeuvre. It is the only work that affords a glimpse of the Romanesque tower of the original Augustinian monastery; in this respect, it can be compared with several views of the Romanesque tower of Saint-Trophime in Arles (e.g., F409, F515).