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Landscape at Saint-Rémy (Enclosed Field with Peasant), 1889
Writing to the artist Emile Bernard, Van Gogh described this scene as ‘nothing but rough ground and rocks, with a thistle and dry grass in a corner, and a little violet and yellow man’. To increase the expressive potential of the image, Van Gogh chose to emphasise the barren heights of the Alpilles in the background, which he painted rising to the top of the picture.
Oil on canvas
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Gift of James W. Fesler in memory of Daniel W. and Elizabeth C. Marmon, 44.74