Shop art print and framed art Thatched Cottages at Cordeville, Auvers-sur-Oise by Vincent van Gogh

Les Chaumes de Cordeville à Auvers-sur-Oise is a painting by Vincent van Gogh painted in Auvers-sur-Oise in June 1890, one month before his death on 29 July 1890. This 73 × 92 cm oil-on-canvas painting is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. In May 1890, Vincent van Gogh left the Saint-Rémy asylum and went to Paris to stay with his brother Theo, where he met his sister-in-law and their little baby. He then moved to Auvers-sur-Oise, some thirty kilometres north of Paris, to be looked after by Dr Gachet (1828-1909). The last weeks of his life coincided with a frenetic period of artistic creation. Cordeville is a hamlet just outside the village of Auvers-sur-Oise. The painting was donated to the Louvre in 1954 by Paul Gachet (1873-1962), son of Dr Gachet"; it was installed at the Musée du Jeu de Paume before finding its current home at the Musée d'Orsay in 1986, under the inventory number RF 1954 14". The thatched cottages are painted in a tortured manner, as if Van Gogh wanted to dilate their volumes, in a material worked in full paste, bringing out the cold tones, greys, greens and greens, under a dark blue sky with dishevelled clouds, reminiscent of Starry Night. The thatched house seems invisible in the green tones. The warm tones have disappeared here. The trees and grass seem to be moved by a powerful wind. The painter's tormented soul has created a "fantastic" and tempestuous [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the post-impressionism style.

 

« Thatched Cottages at Cordeville, Auvers-sur-Oise » is kept at Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France.

 

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