After a Dutch researcher figured out that a scene depicted in the artist’s last work, “Tree Roots,” was visible on a faded postcard showing a man standing next to a bicycle on a back street of the village Auvers-sur-Oise, researchers were given a unique glimpse into the famous painter’s final hours.
A Dutch researcher realized that the scene depicted in the troubled artist’s final work, “Tree Roots,” was visible on a faded picture postcard featuring a man standing next to a bicycle on a back street of the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, 21 miles north of Paris. Van Gogh spent the last weeks of his life in the village and completed dozens of paintings there. Helpfully, the card even included the name of the street.
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Wouter van der Veen, clinical director of the Van Gogh Institute in France, made the discovery. It is now transparent that Van Gogh worked on portraiture beyond the afternoon, historians.
“There has been a wonderful variety of speculation about his mental state, but everything is quite transparent is that he spent a little more time running in this portrait all circular in the afternoon. We know that thanks to the light that fell at work, “Emilie Gordenker, director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Wednesday. “Then, you know, his best friend worked to the end.
The painting, a concept about being completed through Van Gogh, is hung in the Amsterdam Museum.
Gordenker said his composition and execution, a narrow focus on the knotty roots of a hill, led him to be seen as a “herald of abstraction.” Van Gogh was never able to further expand the way he painted.
According to the van Gogh Museum of Life, after running on “Tree Roots,” the artist entered a wheat box around the day later and shot himself in the chest with a pistol. He died two days later, on 29 July 1890, at the age of 37. Two American authors questioned the theory in 2011, suggesting that the artist was shot dead through two teenagers.
Van der Veen believes that the museum’s party edition and that his new discovery monitors that Van Gogh had ingenuity over him and was methodical in his thinking before taking out the cause to devote suicide.
“So the general breeding station was also something he conceived conscientiously,” he said. “Then it’s a lucid decision. It has no compatibility with madness.
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The new discovery made, in part, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
Aleven, though caught in the two-month closure of the House of France, Van der Veen took advantage of the extra time to organize his Apple files and documents in Van Gogh, adding the digitization of shots as the former Auvers-sur-Oise postcard.
A day after April, a phone conversation saw the card in his visual demo unit and suddenly hit it while searching for the location of “Tree Roots”. Next to the companion and his bicycle, the roots and trees are very visible.
“It’s a revelation, ” he said. “A Revelation”.
He was unable to travel the site for several weeks, but he asked a village friend to review it and also take a virtual street tour using Google’s Street View.
The villagers know the location and the main root of the tree, even naming it “the elephant” because of its shape, Van der Veen said. “He was a great friend hiding in plain sight and was even a little disguised because he had acquired another identity,” he added.
The researcher said that while his discovery gave art historians more to reflect on Van Gogh’s last day of work, it also offers tourists an additional explanation of why visiting Auvers-sur-Oise.
“They travel so much through an explanatory country why – stay at Vincent van Gogh’s foot play station – and now stand in the same place where he painted his last painting,” Van der Veen said. “And it’s too touching a thing for a wonderful variety of people. So I’m very happy to be able to do a percentage of this with everyone who loves Van Gogh.”
The Associated Press contributed to the report.