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The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy), 1889
Van Gogh witnessed this scene while walking through Saint-Rémy in the autumn of 1889. Inspired to make a painting, he used a piece of fabric printed with tiny red diamonds (visible in the rocks, bottom left). Van Gogh made a second version on traditional canvas, but it was this picture that he had Theo send to the Salon des Indépendants exhibition in Paris in 1890.
Oil on fabric
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1947.209