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Vincent van Gogh Dutch
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 825
Cypresses was painted in late June 1889, shortly after Van Gogh began his yearlong stay at the asylum in Saint-Rémy. The subject, which he found "beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk," both captivated and challenged the artist: "It’s the dark patch in a sun-drenched landscape, but it’s one of the most interesting dark notes, the most difficult to hit off exactly that I can imagine." One of two close-up views of the "very tall and massive" trees in a vertical format (the other is in the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo), Cypresses was shown in the 1890 Salon des Indépendants.
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Title: Cypresses
Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)
Date: 1889
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 3/4 x 29 1/8 in. (93.4 x 74 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1949
Accession Number: 49.30
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