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Garden with Weeping Tree, Arles, 1888
Diagonal stripes of hay wilting on a newly mown lawn create an almost abstract pattern in this extraordinary view onto a small patch of the public gardens at Arles. A great variety of marks evoke cut grass, shadows, foliage and gravel. This drawing was made after an oil painting that Van Gogh hailed as a ‘new subject’. In this and other works on paper he explored the subject further, aiming for more ‘clarity of touch’.
Ink with traces of graphite on paper
The Menil Collection, Houston