After a Dutch researcher discovered that a scene depicted in the artist’s most recent work, “Tree Roots”, visual on a faded postcard showing a boy’s condition next to a bicycle on a side street in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, the researchers were given an exclusive look at the last hours of the celebrated painter.
A Dutch researcher learned that the scene depicted in the artist’s latest paintings in difficulty, “Tree Roots”, visual on a faded postcard depicting a boy’s condition next to a bicycle on a small street in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, 21 miles away. north of Paris. Van Gogh spent the last weeks of his life in the village and painted dozens of paintings there. Fortunately, the map even included the street call.
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Wouter van der Veen, clinical director of the Van Gogh Institute in France, made the discovery. It is now transparent that Van Gogh worked on the portrait until last afternoon, according to historians.
“There have been many hypotheses about his mood, but one thing is very transparent is that he spent a little more time running in this portrait the afternoon. We know this thanks to the gentile who fell at work,” Emilie Gordenker, director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednesday. “Then, you know, it actually worked to the end.
The painting, which is not finished through Van Gogh, is hung in the Amsterdam Museum.
Gordenker said his composition and execution, a narrow focus on the knotty roots of a hill, led him to be known as an “abstraction omen.” Van Gogh could never expand his taste for painting again.
According to the van Gogh Museum’s edition of life, after running on “Tree Roots,” the artist entered a wheat box later that day and shot himself in the chest with a gun. He died two days later, on 29 July 1890, at the age of 37. Two American authors questioned the theory in 2011, suggesting that the artist shot dead through two teenagers.
Van der Veen believes that the edition of the museum of occasions and that his new discovery shows that Van Gogh had ingenuity over him and was methodical in his thinking before pulling the cause to devote himself to suicide.
“So the final steps were also something he carefully thought about,” he said. “So it was a lucid decision. It was not a fit of madness.”
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The new discovery made partly thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
While stuck at home during France’s two-month lockdown, Van der Veen used the extra time to organize his numerous files and documents on Van Gogh, including digitizing images such as the old postcard from Auvers-sur-Oise.
One day last April, a phone conversation, saw the card on his computer screen and suddenly realized he was looking for the location of “Tree Roots”. Next to the boy and his bike, the roots and trees are obviously visible.
“It’s a revelation, ” he said. “A Revelation”.
He couldn’t stop at the site for several weeks, however, he asked a friend of the people to check it out and also took a virtual street with Google’s Street View.
The researcher said that while their discovery gave art historians more to reflect on Van Gogh’s last day of work, it also gives tourists a more detailed explanation of the motif to Auvers-sur-Oise.
“There are many for an explanation as to why, to follow in Vincent van Gogh’s footsteps, and now they can be in the same place where he painted his last painting,” Van der Veen said. “And it’s a very moving thing for a lot of people. So I’m very pleased to be able to share this with everyone who loves Van Gogh.”
The Associated Press contributed to the report.