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Arles through Van Gogh's eyes Starry Night Over the Rhone Oil on canvas, 72. 5 x 92. 0 cm Arles, September, 1888 Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Gleize Bridge over the Vigueirat Canal Oil on canvas, 46. 0 x 49. 0 cm Arles, March, 1888 Pola Museum of Art, Hakone

Langlois Bridge at Arles with Road Alongside the Canal Oil on canvas, 59. 5 x 74. 0 cm Arles, March, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing Oil on canvas, 54. 0 x 65. 0 cm Arles, March, 1888 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

A Letter to Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 18 March 1888 My dear Bernard, Having promised to write to you, 1 I want to begin by telling you that this part of the world seems to me as beautiful as Japan for the clearness of the atmosphere and the gay colour effects. The stretches of water make patches of a beautiful emerald and a rich blue in the landscapes, as we see it in the Japanese prints. Pale orange sunsets making the fields look blue — glorious yellow suns. However, so far I’ve hardly seen this part of the world in its usual summer splendour. The women’s costume is pretty, and especially on the boulevard on Sunday you see some very naive and well-chosen arrangements of colour. And that, too, will doubtless get even livelier in summer. I regret that living here isn’t as cheap as I’d hoped, and until now I haven’t found a way of getting by as easily as one could do in Pont-Aven. I started out paying 5 francs and now I’m on 4 francs a day. One would need to know the local patois, and know how to eat bouillabaisse and aïoli, then one would surely find an inexpensive family boarding-house. Then if there were several of us, I’m inclined to believe we’d get more favourable terms. Perhaps there’d be a real advantage in emigrating to the south for many artists in love with sunshine and colour. The Japanese may not be making progress in their country, but there’s no doubt that their art is being carried on in France. At the top of this letter I’m sending you a little croquis of a study that’s preoccupying me as to how to make something of it — sailors coming back with their sweethearts towards the town, which projects the strange silhouette of its drawbridge against a huge yellow sun. I have another study of the same drawbridge with a group of washerwomen. Shall be happy to have a line from you to know what you’re doing and where you’re going to go. A very warm handshake to you and the friends. Yours truly, Vincent

Canal with Bridge and Women Washing Arles, first half April, 1888 Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Field with Houses under a Sky with Sun Disk Arles, second half March, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Field with Factory Arles, second half March, 1888 Courtauld Institute Galleries, London

Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Oil on canvas, 64. 5 x 80. 5 cm Arles, March, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Two Lovers (Fragment) Oil on canvas, 32. 5 x 23. 0 cm Arles, March, 1888 Private collection

Orchard in Blossom Oil on canvas, 72. 4 x 53. 5 cm Arles, March-April, 1888 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve) Oil on canvas, 73. 0 x 59. 5 cm Arles, March, 1888 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Langlois Bridge at Arles Oil on canvas, 60. 0 x 65. 0 cm Arles, April, 1888 Private collection, Paris

Blossoming Pear Tree Oil on canvas, 73. 0 x 46. 0 cm Arles, April, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Apricot Trees in Blossom Oil on canvas, 55. 0 x 65. 5 cm Arles, April, 1888 Private collection Almond Tree in Blossom Oil on canvas, 48. 5 x 36. 0 cm Arles, April, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

A letter to Emile Bernard. Arles, Thursday, 19 April 1888 Here’s a new orchard, quite simple in composition; a white tree, a small green tree, a square corner of greenery — a lilac field, an orange roof, a big blue sky Orchard in Blossom Oil on canvas, 72. 5 x 92. 0 cm Arles, April, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Orchard in Blossom Oil on canvas, 72. 0 x 58. 0 cm Arles, April, 1888 private collection, Switzerland

Orchard in Blossom (Plum Trees) Oil on canvas, 55. 0 x 65. 0 cm Arles, April, 1888 National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh Peach Tree in Blossom Oil on canvas, 80. 5 x 59. 5 cm Arles, April-May, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

A letter to Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 12 April 1888 At present I’m busy with the fruit trees in blossom: pink peach trees, yellow-white pear trees. Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses Oil on canvas, 32. 5 x 40. 0 cm Arles, April, 1888 Collection Richard J. Bernhard, New York

Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses Oil on canvas, 65. 0 x 81. 0 cm Arles, April, 1888 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Orchard with Peach Trees in Blossom Oil on canvas, 65. 0 x 81. 0 cm Arles, April, 1888 Private collection The White Orchard Oil on canvas, 60. 0 x 81. 0 cm Arles, April, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Farmers Working in the Field Arles, April, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Field of Grass with a Round Clipped Shrub Arles, early May, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Farmhouse in a Wheat Field Oil on canvas, 45. 0 x 50. 0 cm Arles, May, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Farmhouses in a Wheat Field Near Arles Oil on canvas, 24. 5 x 35. 0 cm Arles, May, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Landscape Under a Stormy Sky Oil on canvas, 59. 5 x 70. 0 cm Arles, May, 1888 Private collection

Path Through a Field with Willows Oil on canvas, 31. 5 x 38. 5 cm Arles, April, 1888 private collection, Switzerland A Lane near Arles Oil on canvas, 61. 0 x 50. 0 cm Arles, May, 1888 Pommersches Landesmuseum, Greifswald

Langlois Bridge at Arles Oil on canvas, 49. 5 x 64. 0 cm Arles, May, 1888 Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne Drawbridge with Lady with Parasol Arles, c. 15 May 1888 Los Angeles County Museum of Art

A Letter to Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 12 May 1888 Now I have two new studies like this: You already have a drawing of it, a farmhouse beside the wide road in the wheatfields. A meadow full of very yellow buttercups, a ditch with iris plants with green leaves, with purple flowers, the town in the background, some grey willow trees — a strip of blue sky. View of Arles with Irises in the Foreground Oil on canvas, 54. 0 x 65. 0 cm Arles, May, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Seascape at Saintes-Maries Oil on canvas, 51. 0 x 64. 0 cm Arles, early June, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries Oil on canvas, 65. 0 x 81. 5 cm Arles, late June, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam A Letter to Emile Bernard Arles, on or about Thursday, 7 June 1888

Cottages in Saintes-Maries Arles, 31 May-4 June, 1888 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art

A Letter to Emile Bernard Arles, on or about Thursday, 7 June 1888 Street in Saintes-Maries Oil on canvas, 38. 3 x 46. 1 cm Arles, early June, 1888 Private collection

Three White Cottages in Saintes-Maries Oil on canvas, 33. 5 x 41. 5 cm. Arles, early June, 1888 Kunsthaus Zurich

The Bridge at Trinquetaille Oil on canvas, 65. 0 x 81. 0 cm Arles, June, 1888 Collection Joseph Hackmey, Israel Canal with Women Washing Oil on canvas, 74. 0 x 60. 0 cm Arles, June, 1888 Collection Joseph Albritton, Washington, D. C.

Farmhouse in Provence Oil on canvas, 46. 1 x 60. 9 cm Arles, June, 1888 National Gallery of Art, Washington Entrance Gate to a Farm with Haystacks Pencil, reed pen, brown ink, 39. 0 x 53. 3 cm Arles, c. 15 June 1888 Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum

Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background Oil on canvas, 73. 0 x 92. 0 cm Arles, June, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Haystacks in Provence Oil on canvas, 73. 0 x 92. 5 cm Arles, June, 1888 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Haystacks in Provence Arles, c. 17 July 1888 Szépmüvészeti Museum, Budapest

A Letter to Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 19 June 1888. For myself, I’m in better health here than in the north — I even work in the wheatfields at midday, in the full heat of the sun, without any shade whatever, and there you are, I revel in it like a cicada. My God, if only I’d known this country at 25, instead of coming here at 35 — in those days I was enthusiastic about grey, or rather, absence of colour. I was always dreaming about Millet, and then I had acquaintances in Holland in the category of painters like Mauve, Israëls. Here’s croquis of a sower. Large field with clods of ploughed earth, mostly downright violet. Field of ripe wheat in a yellow ochre tone with a little crimson. The chrome yellow sky almost as bright as the sun itself, which is chrome yellow 1 with a little white, while the rest of the sky is chrome yellow and mixed, very yellow, then. The sower’s smock is blue, and his trousers white. There are many repetitions of yellow in the earth, neutral tones, resulting from the mixing of violet with yellow, but I could hardly give a damn about the veracity of the colour. Sunset: Wheat Fields Near Arles Oil on canvas, 73. 5 x 92. 0 cm Arles, June, 1888 Kunstmuseum Winterthur

Seascape at Saintes-Maries Oil on canvas, 44. 0 x 53. 0 cm Arles, June, 1888 Pushkin Museum, Moscow View of Saintes-Maries Oil on canvas, 64. 0 x 53. 0 cm Arles, June, 1888 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Beach, Sea, and Fishing Boats Arles, 31 May-4 June, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Sunset at Montmajour Oil on canvas, 93. 3 x 73. 3 cm Arles, Summer, 1888 Private collection

Rocks with Oak Tree Oil on canvas, 54. 0 x 65. 0 cm Arles, early July, 1888 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Painter on His Way to Work Oil on canvas, 48. 0 x 44. 0 cm Arles, July, 1888 Destroyed by fire in the Second World War formerly in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Magdeburg, Germany

A Letter to Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 5 July 1888 Here’s a new subject. A corner of a garden with round bushes and a weeping tree, and in the background, clumps of oleanders. And the lawn that has just been mown, with long wisps of hay drying in the sun. A little corner of blue green sky at the top Sunny Lawn in a Public Park Oil on canvas, 60. 5 x 73. 5 cm Arles, July, 1888 Collection Merzbacher, Zurich

Flowering Garden with Path Oil on canvas, 72. 0 x 91. 0 cm Arles, July, 1888 Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague Flowering Garden Oil on canvas, 92. 0 x 73. 0 cm Arles, July, 1888 Private collection, New York

Hill with the Ruins of Montmajour Arles, 13 July 1888 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Landscape with Alphonse Daudet's Windmill Arles, July, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Gypsies at Saintes-Maries Arles, June, 1888 Encampment of Gypsies with Caravans Oil on canvas, 45. 0 x 51. 0 cm Arles, August, 1888 Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Garden Behind a House Oil on canvas, 63. 5 x 52. 5 cm Arles, August, 1888 Private collection Garden with Flowers Arles, August, 1888 New York, William Acquavella Garden with Sunflowers Arles, 6 -8 August 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Oil on canvas, 65. 5 x 81. 0 cm Arles, August, 1888 Private collection Interior of the Restaurant Carrel in Arles Oil on canvas, 54. 0 x 64. 5 cm Arles, August, 1888 Private collection

A Letter to Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 13 August 1888 At the moment I’m working on a study like this : boats seen from a quay, from above; the two boats are a purplish pink, the water is very green, no sky, a tricolour flag on the mast. A workman with a wheelbarrow is unloading sand. Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges Oil on canvas, 55. 1 x 66. 2 cm Arles, August, 1888 Museum Folkwang, Essen

Bank of the Rhone at Arles, July, 1888 Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam

A Fishing Boat at Sea Arles, 6 -8 August 1888 Fishing Boats at Sea Arles, c. 17 July 1888 Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett A Fishing Boat at Sea Arles, 31 July-6 August, 1888 St. Louis Art Museum

Railway Carriages Oil on canvas, 45. 0 x 50. 0 cm Arles, August, 1888 Fondation Angladon-Dubrujeaud, Avignon, France

The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night Arles, September, 1888 Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night Oil on canvas, 81. 0 x 65. 5 cm Arles, September, 1888 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Self Portrait (dedicated to Paul Gauguin) Arles, September 1888 oil on canvas, 61. 5 × 50. 3 cm Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge

Entrance to the Public Park in Arles Oil on canvas, 72. 5 x 91. 0 cm Arles, September, 1888 The Phillips Collection, Washington A Lane in the Public Garden at Arles Oil on canvas, 73. 0 x 92. 0 cm Arles, September, 1888 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

The Night Café in the Place Lamartine in Arles Oil on canvas, 70. 0 x 89. 0 cm Arles, 5 -8 September 1888 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn

The Old Mill Oil on canvas, 64. 5 x 54. 0 cm Arles, September, 1888 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N. Y. The Poet's Garden Oil on canvas, 73. 0 x 91. 2 cm Arles, September, 1888 The Art Institute of Chicago

Bush in the Park at Arles: The Poet's Garden II Arles, September, 1888 Private collection

The Green Vineyard Oil on canvas, 72. 0 x 92. 0 cm Arles, September, 1888 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

A Letter to Theo van Gogh Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888 Included herewith little croquis of a square no. 30 canvas — the starry sky at last, actually painted at night, under a gas-lamp. The sky is green-blue, the water is royal blue, the areas of land are mauve. The town is blue and violet. The gaslight is yellow, and its reflections are red gold and go right down to green bronze. Against the green-blue field of the sky the Great Bear has a green and pink sparkle whose discreet paleness contrasts with the harsh gold of the gaslight. Two small coloured figures of lovers in the foreground. Starry Night Over the Rhone Oil on canvas, 72. 5 x 92. 0 cm Arles, September, 1888 Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Willows at Sunset Oil on cardboard, 31. 5 x 34. 5 cm Arles, Autumn, 1888 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

The Brothel Oil on canvas, 33. 0 x 41. 0 cm Arles, October, 1888 The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Public Garden with Couple and Blue Fir Tree: The Poet's Garden III Oil on canvas, 73. 0 x 92. 0 cm Arles, October, 1888 Private collection Public Park at Arles Oil on can, 72. 0 x 93. 0 cm Arles, October, 1888 Private collection

The Railway Bridge over Avenue Montmajour, Arles Oil on canvas, 71. 0 x 92. 0 cm Arles, October, 1888 Private collection Tarascon Diligence Oil on canvas, 72. 0 x 92. 0 cm Arles, October, 1888 The Art Museum, Princeton

A Letter to Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 13 October 1888 … the Trinquetaille bridge and another bridge; the railway goes over the road… Lastly, the Trinquetaille bridge with all its steps is a canvas done on a grey morning, the stones, the asphalt, the cobblestones are grey, the sky a pale blue, the small figures colourful, a puny tree with yellow foliage. The Trinquetaille Bridge Oil on canvas, 73. 5 x 92. 5 cm Arles, October, 1888 Private collection

In a letter to his brother, Theo, Vincent wrote: My eyes are still tired by then I had a new idea in my head and here is the sketch of it. Another size 30 canvas. This time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, looking at the picture ought to rest the brain, or rather the imagination. The walls are pale violet. The floor is of red tiles. The wood of the bed and chairs is the yellow of fresh butter, the sheets and pillows very light greenish-citron. The coverlet scarlet. The window green. The toilet table orange, the basin blue. The doors lilac. And that is all--there is nothing in this room with its closed shutters. The broad lines of the furniture again must express inviolable rest. Portraits on the walls, and a mirror and a towel and some clothes. The frame--as there is no white in the picture--will be white. This by way of revenge for the enforced rest I was obliged to take. Vincent's Bedroom in Arles Oil on canvas, 72. 0 x 90. 0 cm Arles, October, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam I shall work on it again all day, but you see how simple the conception is. The shadows and the cast shadows are suppressed; it is painted in free flat tints like the Japanese prints. It is going to be a contrast to, for instance, the Tarascon diligence and the night café.

A Letter to Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 27 or Sunday, 28 October 1888 … I did another study of ploughed field with the stump of an old yew… Trunk of an Old Yew Tree Oil on canvas, 91. 0 x 71. 0 cm Arles, late October, 1888 Helly Nahmad Gallery, London

Les Alyscamps Oil on canvas, 92. 0 x 73. 5 cm Arles, November, 1888 Private collection Les Alyscamps Oil on canvas, 72. 0 x 91. 0 cm Arles, November, 1888 Collection Niarchos

Les Alyscamps: Falling Autumn Leaves Oil on canvas, 73. 0 x 92. 0 cm Arles, November, 1888 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Les Alyscamps, Avenue in Arles, October 1888 oil on canvas, 93 x 72 cm Sammlung Basil P. und Elise Goulandris, Lausanne

The Red Vineyard Oil on canvas, 75. 0 x 93. 0 cm Arles, November, 1888 Pushkin Museum, Moscow

A Letter to Paul Signac. Arles, Wednesday, 10 April 1889 I am well now and I’m working in the hospital or its surroundings. Thus I’ve just brought back two studies of orchards. Here’s a hasty croquis of them – the largest is a poor green countryside with little cottages, blue line of the Alpilles, white and blue sky. The foreground, enclosures with reed hedges where little peach trees are in blossom – everything there is small, the gardens, the fields, the La Crau with Peach Trees in Blossom Oil on canvas, 65. 5 x 81. 5 cm Arles, April, 1889 Courtauld Institute Galleries, London gardens, the trees, even those mountains, as in certain Japanese landscapes, that’s why this subject attracted me.

A Letter to Paul Signac Arles, Wednesday, 10 April 1889 View of Arles with Trees in Blossom Oil on canvas, 50. 5 x 65. 0 cm Arles, April, 1889 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Orchard in Blossom with View of Arles Oil on canvas, 72. 0 x 92. 0 cm Arles, April, 1889 Neue Pinakothek

Red Chestnuts in the Public Park at Arles Oil on canvas, 72. 5 x 92. 0 cm Arles, April, 1889 Private collection Pollard Willows Oil on canvas, 55. 0 x 65. 0 cm Arles, April, 1889 Collection Niarchos

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