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How many olive tree paintings did Van Gogh make?
Vincent van Gogh made 15 paintings of olive trees in total. At first he was struggling to capture the characteristics of the olive tree; he found them intimate and nearly too beautiful too paint. But he didn’t stop trying. Van Gogh even made 3 versions of 'Women Picking Olives’.
"So at present am working in the olive trees, seeking the different effects of a grey sky against yellow earth, with dark green note of the foliage; another time the earth and foliage all purplish against yellow sky, then red ochre earth and pink and green sky. See, that interests me more than the so-called abstractions.”
Women Picking Olives
Saint-Rémy, 1889
Oil on canvas
72,7 x 91,4 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Today 132 years ago, on or about 25 November 1889,
Vincent van Gogh wrote to Emile Bernard from Arles:"So at present am working in the olive trees, seeking the different effects of a grey sky against yellow earth, with dark green note of the foliage; another time the earth and foliage all purplish against yellow sky, then red ochre earth and pink and green sky. See, that interests me more than the so-called abstractions.”
Women Picking Olives
Saint-Rémy, 1889
Oil on canvas
72,7 x 91,4 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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