Vincent van Gogh - Olive Picking 1889
Olive Picking 1889
72x89cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA:
At the end of 1889, Van Gogh painted three versions of this picture. He described the first as a study from nature "more colored with more solemn tones" (private collection) and the second as a studio rendition in a "very discreet range" of colors (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.). The present work, the most resolved and stylized of the three, was intended for his sister and mother, to whom Van Gogh wrote: "I hope that the painting of the women in the olive trees will be a little to your tasteāI sent [a] drawing of it to Gauguin, . . . and he thought it good. . . ."