09/23/2023
Vincent van Gogh👨✈️🎨🇾🇪
(1853 - 1890)
The work of Vincent van Gogh is inextricably linked to his fabled life, which epitomizes the romantic legend of the artist as a misunderstood and psychologically tormented genius. Although he famously sold only a single work over the course of his short but prolific career, Van Gogh developed a highly individualistic style of painting that was revered by subsequent generations of avant-garde painters, beginning with the Fauves and Expressionists.....
Many of the early writers on Van Gogh knew that a painting of the Tarascon Coach existed because of a letter from Vincent to his brother, Theo, in which he described the work and drew a sketch of it.....
https://www.pearlmancollection.org/artwork/tarascon-stage-coach/ https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/files/_attachments_pages/van_gogh_teacher_resource_final.pdf..................
"Tarascon Stagecoach" / "Die Postkutsche nach Tarascon"
Arles, October 1888
oil on canvas h: 71.4 cm (28.1 in); width: 92.5 cm (36.4 in)
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum,
Princeton, New Jersey, US 🏛️🇺🇸
The exceptionally well-preserved paint texture in this work ranges from high peaks of thickly impastoed oils (the yellow wall, gray courtyard, and greens of the carriages) to unpainted canvas (between the spokes of the back wheel). Closed shutters suggest that it is siesta time, and short shadows indicate the early afternoon. The inn portrayed is in Arles, midway on the stagecoach’s route.
In 1895 the legendary Paris art dealer Ambroise Vollard included “Tarascon Diligence” in an exhibition of the artist’s work. Although the show was not a commercial success, it was significant as the first major posthumous Van Gogh exhibition.
https://www.pearlmancollection.org/artwork/tarascon-stage-coach/
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/21359
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_-_Die_Postkutsche_nach_Tarascon.jpeg
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