Country Road In Provence By Night

Title

Country Road In Provence By Night

Artist

Eric Glaser

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Painting - Oil On Canvas

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"Country Road in Provence by Night"

Artist: Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Title: Country Road in Provence by Night

Saint-Rémy - Road with Cypress and Star

Genre: Landscape art

Date: 1890

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 92 cm (36.2 in); Width: 73 cm (28.7 in)

Collection: Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He was not commercially successful, and his suicide at 37 came after years of mental illness, depression and poverty.

Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet, and thoughtful. As a young man he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion and spent time as a Protestant missionary in southern Belgium. He drifted in ill health and solitude before taking up painting in 1881, having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept a long correspondence by letter.

Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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