Art of the Day: Van Gogh, The Wheat Field behind St. Paul's Hospital, St. Rémy, November-December 1889. Oil on canvas, 24.13 × 33.66 cm. VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
Art of the Day: Van Gogh, The Stone Bench in the Asylum at Saint-Remy, 1889. Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 48.5 cm. MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo.
Art of the Day: Van Gogh, Self-Portrait, November-December 1888. Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm. Private collection.
Vincent van Gogh dedicated this portrait to Charles Laval, a fellow artist and mutual friend of Paul Gauguin. Laval, in exchange, sent Vincent a remarkable self-portrait set against an open window, which Vincent described in a letter to his brother Theo as "very self-assured, very distinguished."
Art of the Day: Van Gogh, Tarascon Stagecoach, 1888. Oil on canvas, 71.4 x 92.5 cm. The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, on long term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum.
Art of the Day: Van Gogh, Still Life with Bible, October 1885. Oil canvas, 65.7 x 78.5 cm. Van Gogh Musuem, Amsterdam.
The Bible in this painting belonged to Vincent van Gogh's father, Dorus, who had been a pastor in the Dutch Reformed church before his death in March 1885. Vincent had a strained relationship with his father, and this painting is widely seen as the artist's attempt to comes to terms with his father's legacy. Next to the massive Bible, Vincent placed a small copy of Emile Zola's "La joie de vivre," a novel representing his own more modern worldview.
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