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The Yellow House (Dutch: Het gele huis), alternatively named The Street (Dutch: De straat), [1] [2] is an 1888 oil painting by the 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. The house was the right wing of 2 Place Lamartine, Arles , France, where, on May 1, 1888, Van Gogh rented four rooms.
Décoration for the Yellow House was the main project Vincent van Gogh focused on in Arles, from August 1888 until his breakdown the day before Christmas. This Décoration had no pre-defined form or size; the central idea of the Décoration grew step by step, with the progress of his work.
A yellow house stands at the side of the lane. The use of color in the painting is typical of Van Gogh in this period. The colors are bright and alive, lighting up the canvas and offering a view that is more perceived than experienced. The idyllic nature of the moment is thus conveyed in the use of colors.
Van Gogh depicts Adeline, rather than a photographic resemblance, with "impassioned aspects" of contemporary life through the "modern taste for color." [49] Van Gogh wrote to his brother: “Last week I did a portrait of a girl about sixteen, in blue against a blue background, the daughter of the people with whom I am staying. I have given her ...
Les Arènes is a painting by Vincent van Gogh executed in Arles, in November or December 1888, during the period of time when Paul Gauguin was living with him in The Yellow House. The bullfight season in Arles that year started on Easter Sunday 1 April and ended on 21 October. [ 1 ]
A Girl in the Street, Two Coaches in the Background Artist Vincent van Gogh Year 1882 Catalogue F13 JH179 Medium Oil on canvas on panel Dimensions 42.0 cm × 53.0 cm (16.5 in × 20.9 in) Location Villa Flora, Winterthur A Girl in the Street, Two Coaches in the Background (F13, JH179) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is one of his very early works, painted in The Hague in August 1882 ...
He had the Yellow House in Arles furnished to settle there. Evidently until this time, van Gogh's relations to M. and Mme. Ginoux had remained more or less commercial (the café is the subject of The Night Café), but Gauguin's arrival in Arles altered the situation. His courtship charmed the lady, then about 40 years of age, and in the first ...
Van Gogh lodged at the home of Ursula Loyer and her daughter Eugenie, [1] at 87 Hackford Road, Stockwell, London, England, from August 1873, [2] while working at the art dealership Goupil & Co. [3] He sketched the 1824-built, [ 3 ] three-storey [ 3 ] Georgian terrace including the house, opposite Durand School , [ 4 ] using pencil with chalk ...