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Did Van Gogh want to leave the asylum?
Yes after a year Vincent van Gogh wanted his freedom back and had been waiting patiently for his release.
"I’ve tried to be patient up to this point, I haven’t done any harm to anyone, is it fair to have me accompanied like a dangerous animal? No thank you, I protest. If a crisis occurs, they know what to do in every station, and then I’d let them do it."
"As for me, my patience is at an end, at an end, my dear brother, I can’t go on, I must move, even if as a stopgap. However, there really is a chance that the change will do me good – work is going well, I’ve done 2 canvases of the fresh grass in the park, one of which is extremely simple. The trunk of a pine tree violet pink, and then grass with white flowers and dandelions, a little rose bush and other tree-trunks in the background, in the uppermost part of the canvas.”
The garden of the asylum with dandelions and tree-trunks (Tree trunks in the grass)
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1890
Oil on canvas
72,5 × 91,5 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
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"I’ve tried to be patient up to this point, I haven’t done any harm to anyone, is it fair to have me accompanied like a dangerous animal? No thank you, I protest. If a crisis occurs, they know what to do in every station, and then I’d let them do it."
Today 132 years ago, on 4 May 1890,
Vincent van Gogh wrote to Theo from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence:"As for me, my patience is at an end, at an end, my dear brother, I can’t go on, I must move, even if as a stopgap. However, there really is a chance that the change will do me good – work is going well, I’ve done 2 canvases of the fresh grass in the park, one of which is extremely simple. The trunk of a pine tree violet pink, and then grass with white flowers and dandelions, a little rose bush and other tree-trunks in the background, in the uppermost part of the canvas.”
The garden of the asylum with dandelions and tree-trunks (Tree trunks in the grass)
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1890
Oil on canvas
72,5 × 91,5 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
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