© NCG Signature/Inscription: Unsigned Place of Origin: -- Type of work: Painting Iconography: Landscape Glossary of technical terms: see Dictionary MIN smk-1840 Gogh, Vincent Willem Van 1853-1890 Landscape from Saint-Rémy 1889 Oil on canvas, 70.5 x 88.5 cm Van Gogh's letters document that Landscape from Saint-Rémy was painted during the second week of June, 1889. Around the 9th June he wrote to his brother, Théo van Gogh, "I am working on two landscapes (size 30 canvas), views taken in the hills, one is the country that I see from the window of my bedroom. In the foreground, a field of wheat ruined and hurled to the ground by a storm. A boundary wall and beyond the grey foliage of a few olive trees, some huts and the hills. Then at the top of the canvas a great white and grey cloud floating in the azure. It is a landscape of extreme simplicity in colouring too". A few weeks earlier, on 8 May 1889, van Gogh had admitted himself as a voluntary patient at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy. From the window of his bedroom he could see the walled wheatfield and the rugged mountain range known as the Alpilles. As early as May 22 he described this view, "Through the iron-barred window I see a square field of wheat in an enclos Location: Room 64 Enlarged Photo Provenance NCG Catalogue references Exhibition History Shop   Luk