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Van Gogh: Olive Grove, 1889
Oil on Canvas, 45.5 X 59.5 cm
Photo: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
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Many olive trees grew in the dry, rocky soil of Saint-Rémy. This was a type of tree not found in the neighborhood of Arles. Van Gogh made a series of ten paintings on this theme. Olive groves were a characteristic element in the landscape of the south, and their gnarled trunks were a rewarding subject. Van Gogh was particularly fascinated by the ever-changing color: 'it is silvery, then blue, and then a whitish bronze-green, against a yellow, mauve-pink or orange to dull red ocher soil. But difficult, very difficult,' he wrote to Theo. |
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