The record dates Cypresses with Two Women to 1889. This site assigns that whole year to Saint-Rémy, and it states plainly why: the record holds a year and not a month, so each year goes whole to the town where more of it was painted. The stated consequence is that canvases made at Arles early in 1889 are grouped here under Saint-Rémy. The rule is published so that a reader knows the year is doing the work, and not a claim about a town.
The canvas measures 92 by 73 centimetres, an upright — the second commonest recorded size in this catalogue, shared by nine works — and it is held by the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, which holds fifteen of the 116 works dated 1889. The measured palette reads as yellow.
Ten titles here name a cypress: one dated 1888, six dated 1889 and three dated 1890. The motif belongs to the last two periods and to no earlier one. This catalogue also holds a 1890 entry titled Cypresses and Two Women — the same words in a different order, a different date, a different collection and a different size. Two records that a careless index would merge, and that this one keeps apart.
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ vɑŋ ˈɣɔx] ; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he c
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Cypresses with Two Women is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, 1889, held at Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands.
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