Already in 1874, so 6 years before Van Gogh started painting, he wrote about his love for nature. And that wouldn’t change during his painting career. Nature not only inspired him to paint wheat fields, olive trees, and sunflowers. It also made him recover faster from his mental breakdowns.
After a hectic period in Arles with Gauguin Van Gogh moved from Arles to the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. At first he wasn’t allowed to leave the premises, but fortunately the asylum had a big garden with irises, a mulberry tree and.. poppies and butterflies.
This beautifully restored Italian frame is approximately 100 years old. The golden effect helps to see the divinity in the smallest details of nature as Van Gogh saw them:
‘It isn’t the language of painters one ought to listen to but the language of nature’.
Frame: 49,2 x 40,2 cm / 19.4 x 15.8 inch
Painting: 36,5 x 27,5 cm / 14.4 x 10.8 inch