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The Poet’s Garden (Public Garden in Arles), 1888
The unremarkable public garden in front of Van Gogh's home in Arles was the starting point for many views in which he used artistic licence and his imagination to create idealised worlds. He described the site in which young lovers stand in the shade of a spreading fir tree as ‘the poet’s garden’ and imagined it as a place frequented by artists and writers of the past.
Oil on canvas
Private collection