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His passion was now for “a full effect of colour.”. He left Paris in February 1888 for Arles, in southeastern France. Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of Joseph Roulin. Portrait of Joseph Roulin, oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France, early 1889; in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. 64.4 × 55.2 cm. Bulb Fields. Bulb Fields, also known as Flower Beds in Holland, is an oil painting created by Vincent van Gogh in early 1883. It was donated to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC in 1983. Bulb Fields was Van Gogh's first garden painting, in oil paint on canvas mounted on wood. It was made in Van Gogh's second year in The Hague.6) Although a night scene, the painting is devoid of the color black. Vincent states in a letter to his sister that, to him, the night is richer in color than day. 7) Vincent painted the café terrace scene on location rather than from memory. 8) The café in the painting is still in existence, renamed the Café Van Gogh.
Vincent van Gogh, born in 1853, grew up in the southern Netherlands, where his father was a minister. After seven years at a commercial art firm, Van Gogh’s desire to help humanity led him to become a teacher, preacher, and missionary—yet without success. Working as a missionary among coal miners in Belgium, he had begun to draw in earnest
Sunset at Montmajour. Sunset at Montmajour is a landscape in oils painted by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh on 4 July 1888. [1] [2] [3] It was painted while the artist was at Arles, France and depicts a landscape of garrigue with the ruins of Montmajour Abbey in the background. [1] [4] The painting is 73.3 cm × 93.3 cm (28.9 in × 36.7 in). 8MKF.