14th September 2024 - 19 January 2025
Tenth visit on Tuesday 26th November.
Arrived at about 10:10 again.
I was unsure how this visit would unfold but I basically got engrossed in looking at six of the paintings and actually spent more time in the exhibition than on previous occasions.
There was enough space to get some single images of the framed works using the back viewer on the camera.
I also took some shots with the 'new' iPhone!
Arrived at about 10:10 again.
I was unsure how this visit would unfold but I basically got engrossed in looking at six of the paintings and actually spent more time in the exhibition than on previous occasions.
There was enough space to get some single images of the framed works using the back viewer on the camera.
I also took some shots with the 'new' iPhone!
Public Garden with Couple and Blue Fir Tree: The Poet's Garden III, Arles October 1888
oil on canvas
73 x 92 cm
Private Collection
oil on canvas
73 x 92 cm
Private Collection
From: Vincent van Gogh
To: Theo van Gogh
Date: Arles, Saturday, 13 October 1888
'Now imagine a huge green-blue fir tree spreading its horizontal branches over a very green lawn and sand dappled with light and shade.
This very simple corner of a garden is enlivened by beds of orange lead geraniums in the background areas, under the black branches. Two figures of lovers stand in the shade of the big tree'.
To: Theo van Gogh
Date: Arles, Saturday, 13 October 1888
'Now imagine a huge green-blue fir tree spreading its horizontal branches over a very green lawn and sand dappled with light and shade.
This very simple corner of a garden is enlivened by beds of orange lead geraniums in the background areas, under the black branches. Two figures of lovers stand in the shade of the big tree'.
The Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, Saint-Rémy: November, 1889
oil on canvas
73.1 x 92.6 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen
oil on canvas
73.1 x 92.6 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen
View of Arles, Flowering Orchards
1889
oil on canvas
72 x 92 cm
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Neue Pinakothek, Munich
1889
oil on canvas
72 x 92 cm
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Neue Pinakothek, Munich
iPhone detail
Enclosed Wheat Field with Peasant
Saint-Rémy: early October, 1889
oil on canvas
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Gift of James W Fesler
Saint-Rémy: early October, 1889
oil on canvas
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Gift of James W Fesler
iPhone detail
The new iPhone produces a 'cold' image and I will have to look more closely at the 'focus' as a couple of shots were not as sharp as I would have hoped. This may be down to the low shutter speed and the wide aperture.
ISO 250, 1/60 at f/1.8, white balance Auto.
The main camera is on an ISO of 6400 or 8000 1/320 or 1/250 at f2.8, white balance Manual and the images are processed with AI noise reduction.
ISO 250, 1/60 at f/1.8, white balance Auto.
The main camera is on an ISO of 6400 or 8000 1/320 or 1/250 at f2.8, white balance Manual and the images are processed with AI noise reduction.
iPhone detail
iPhone detail
iPhone detail
Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun, Saint-Rémy: November, 1889
oil on canvas
73.7 x 92.7 cm
Lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
oil on canvas
73.7 x 92.7 cm
Lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
iPhone detail
iPhone detail
Vincent's House in Arles (The Yellow House) 1888
oil on canvas
72 x 91.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
oil on canvas
72 x 91.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
I keep returning to this painting as it is maybe the most enigmatic work in the exhibition probably, in my view, because of the strange colour palette.
So, after ten visits, casually looking at some of the sixty works and not really focussing on most of the rest of them I left the gallery today with the thought that it was such a treat to be able to go and look at some remarkable paintings week after week!
Site Updated February 2026 Felix Mottram