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The Public Garden, Arles, 1888
Van Gogh repeatedly drew and painted views of the gardens in Arles over the summer of 1888. On 22 October he wrote to his brother Theo (1857-1891) to say that, despite promising himself not to work, he could not resist painting the park’s autumn colours. ‘But it’s like that every day, sometimes in passing I find such beautiful things that in the end you have to try to do them anyway.’
Oil on canvas
Private collection