Auvers, 1890

The record dates Street in Auvers-sur-Oise to 1890 and names the town in the title. Auvers is the fifth and last place in this catalogue's chronology, and the record's density there is striking: twenty-one of the eighty-four works dated 1890 name it, in a period that ended with the painter's death on 29 July of that year.

What the record gives

The canvas measures 73 x 92 cm — the commonest single measurement in this catalogue, recorded for seventeen works — and it is held by the Ateneum in Helsinki, the only work in this catalogue recorded in that collection. The measured palette resolves to green as the single dominant family.

Streets and steps

Four works here carry "street" in the title, three of them dated 1890 and all three at Auvers, including two called Village Street and Steps in Auvers that are held in Saint Louis and in Hiroshima and differ sharply in size. The village itself — its streets, its houses, its church, its town hall on 14 July — is what the last year of the record mostly consists of. It is the most locally concentrated period in the whole arc.