Vincent van Gogh - Olive Grove Pale Blue Sky 1889

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Olive Grove Pale Blue Sky 1889

Olive Grove Pale Blue Sky 1889
72x92cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA:
This is one of five pictures of olive orchards that Van Gogh made in November 1889. Painted directly from nature but animated by Seurat-like stippling and stylized passages of broken color, these works responded to recent compositions by Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard. "What I’ve done is a rather harsh and coarse realism beside their abstractions," Van Gogh observed, "but it will nevertheless impart a rustic note, and will smell of the soil."