58
Olive Grove, Saint-Rémy, 1889
Recent technical analysis has suggested that Van Gogh painted this olive grove largely outdoors as natural materials have been found in its paint layers. It is exceptionally well preserved in terms of its colour. In other works, such as Olive Grove with Two Olive Pickers (59) hanging alongside, Van Gogh experimented with paints that were new on the market and which have since faded. For this luminous picture he used more stable pigments.
Oil on canvas
Gothenburg Museum of Art