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Olive Grove with Two Olive Pickers, 1889
In the studio, Van Gogh repeated the composition of Olive Grove, Saint-Rémy (58) to which he added imagined figures, a smiling woman in the foreground and a man in blue. Their presence adds to what was already a highly composed and stylised depiction of a grove beneath a sky flecked with wisps of red and blue clouds — all painted using drifts of brushstrokes.
Oil on canvas
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands