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| Keywords: Van Gogh - Straßenarbeiter auf dem Boulvard Victor Hugo in Saint-Rémy.jpeg Artwork Creator Vincent van Gogh In 1889 after suffering a severe hallucinatory seizure Van Gogh committed himself to an asylum near Saint-Rémy While walking through the town that fall he was impressed by the sight of men repairing a road beneath immense plane trees Rushing to capture the yellowing leaves he painted this composition on an unusual cloth with a pattern of small red diamonds visible in the picture ™s many unpainted areas In spite of the cold he wrote to his brother I have gone on working outside till now and I think it is doing me good and the work too After painting this composition directly from nature Van Gogh used it to produce a second version in the studio known as The Road Menders at Saint-Rémy Painted on a traditional canvas covered by a ground layer the second version is more restrained the explosive yellows balanced by larger areas of cool color <ref>http //www clevelandart org/art/1947 209 Cleveland Museum of Art</ref> reflist Saint-Rémy 1889 11 oil canvas cm 73 4 91 8 Cleveland Museum of Art Gallery 222b http //www clevelandart org/art/1947 209 The Cleveland Museum of Art<br/>http //www vangoghgallery com/catalog/Painting/471/Road 20Menders 20The html vangoghgallery com object history credit line Gift of the Hanna Fund Van Gogh catalogues 657 1860 accession number 1947 209 repro from artbook PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT Van Gogh 1889-11 The Large Plane Trees Cleveland Museum of Art Road Menders at Saint-Rémy F657 | ||||
