Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
Auvers, the last period
The record dates Houses in Auvers to 1890, the final year of the ten and the one this site assigns to Auvers-sur-Oise. Twenty-one titles in this catalogue name Auvers, and every one is dated 1890. The place-name and the year are coextensive in the record, and no place-name here is confined to one year in greater numbers.
What the record gives
The canvas measures 73 by 60.6 centimetres, an upright, and it is held by the Toledo Museum of Art, one of two entries here in that collection, the other dated 1888. The measured palette reads as green and yellow.
The last year, in counts
Eighty-four works in this catalogue are dated 1890, against 116 for 1889 and 135 for 1888. Yellow dominates sixty-two of the eighty-four and green fifty; brown dominates one. Blue, which peaked at twenty-six in 1888, is down to ten. Measured as a share of the year, that is the most green and the least brown of the ten years. Beyond the year, the size, the collection and that measurement, this entry carries nothing else, and nothing else is claimed.
