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Van Gogh's Last Painting
Saturday, 24 May 2025
Vincent van Gogh is at the forefront of my thoughts, what with my recent focus on Van Gogh's Flowers, the New York Botanical Garden's current exhibition. Wrote several entries. Now taking a break, I'm reading "Next to Last Stand" a Longmire novel by Craig Johnson. And about a third of the way in, there are a few sentences with a discussion about van Gogh's death. Was it suicide? Or murder? I don't know but for some reason it made me think, What was his last painting?
image courtesy Wouter van der Veen, specialist in the life and work of Vincent van Gogh
A photograph of the hillside at rue Daubigny, Auvers-sur-Oise taken on 30 May 2020. The site is
500 feet from the Auberge Ravoux, the inn where Van Gogh stayed the last 70 days of his life.
copyright free image from Wiki Commons
'Tree Roots' An oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, July 1890.
How was it determined just where the picture was painted?
Dr. Wouter Van der Veen, director of the Institut Van Gogh determined the probable location.
He based this on an historical postcard circa 1900-1910, of ‘rue Daubigny, Auvers-sur-Oise’.
image courtesy Wouter van der Veen, specialist in the life and work of Vincent van Gogh
Experts concluded that it is 'highly plausible' that the correct location has been identified.
image courtesy Wouter van der Veen, specialist in the life and work of Vincent van Gogh
A postcard ‘rue Daubigny, Auvers-sur-Oise’ with Van Gogh's painting ‘Tree Roots’ superimposed.
The painting itself, and not the subject, has been thought to be a forerunner of abstract painting and German expressionism.
In early May 2024 I was at my dentist's office. Parked, got out of my car
and was entranced by tree roots slithering over the ground at the adjacent property.
I don't paint. My camera was with me. Vincent would have gazed upon this with delight.
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