Vincent van Gogh - Thatched Sandstone Cottages in Chaponval 1890

Plain Near Auvers 1890 Field with Stacks of Wheat 1890 Thatched Cottages by a Hill 1890 Thatched Sandstone Cottages in Chaponval 1890 Tree Roots and Trunks 1890 Two Women Crossing the Fields 1890 View of Auvers with Church 1890
Thatched Sandstone Cottages in Chaponval 1890

Thatched Sandstone Cottages in Chaponval 1890
65x81cm oil/canvas
Kunsthaus Zurich

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From Kunsthaus Zurich:
The picture Thatched Roofs near Auvers is one of van Gogh’s very last paintings; in the last letter he sent to his brother Theo, three days before committing suicide, he sketched out the composition with its daringly exaggerated lines of force. Seen from a symbolic psychological perspective the boundless preponderance of falling diagonals is overwhelming. The children – the red-haired boy has been interpreted as a reference to van Gogh himself – appear to be trapped in a thoroughly hopeless situation.