Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape

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Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape: Vincent van Gogh

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Vincent van Gogh Oil Painting - Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape

Keywords: Olive, Trees, Mountainous, Landscape

Work Overview: Montagne des Deux Trous also Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape (with the Alpilles in the Background)
Artist Vincent van Gogh
Year 1889
Catalogue F712 / JH1740
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 92 cm × 72.5 cm (36.2 in × 28.5 in)
Location Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Vincent van Gogh painted at least 18 paintings of olive trees, mostly in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in 1889.

Of Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Vincent wrote his brother Theo: "I did a landscape with olive trees and also a new study of a starry sky," calling this painting the daylight complement to the nocturnal, The Starry Night. His intention was to go beyond "the photographic and silly perfection of some painters" to an intensity born of color and linear rhythms.[30]

Within the painting, twisted green olive trees stand before the foothills of the Alps and underneath the sky with an "ectoplasmic" cloud. Later, when the pictures had dried, he sent both of them to Theo in Paris, noting: "The olive trees with the white cloud and the mountains behind, as well as the rise of the moon and the night effect, are exaggerations from the point of view of the general arrangement; the outlines are accentuated as in some old woodcuts."

Mont Gaussier, the dominant hill of the Alpilles range, can be seen from the streets of Saint-Remy.[50] Van Gogh generally saw the Alpilles from his room or the grounds of Saint-Paul hospital. In Van Gogh's Le Mont Gaussier with the Mas de Saint-Paul the Alpilles are painted in yellow, green and purple.

Left of Mont Gaussier is the Montagne des Deux Trous. In van Gogh's painting of this hill its dark holes are visible about the "undulating olive trees."

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