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Though he had spent the previous year at an asylum in France, Vincent van Gogh arrived in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, just north of Paris, in an optimistic mood. It was here, in 1890, that he would spend the last few months of his life.
Despite his mental anguish, Van Gogh produced some of his greatest paintings in the last few months of his life.
The challenge at the heart of Van Gogh’s Cypresses is that the trees carried associations in the late 19th century that are lost on us today.
This exhibition showcases Van Gogh’s exploration of cypress trees as a subject and considers what they might have meant to the artist.