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Date : 1888
Sizes : 55 cm x 65 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Norton Simon Art Foundation (1975)
| Patience Escalier
Item 27 on 29
Painting
Painting (Portrait)
Area related
Arles (France)
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In two letters of August 1888, van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo: "I wanted to paint a little old peasant, who very much resembles our father in features... Behind the head ... I paint infinity, a plain background of the richest, most intense blue I can conceive, and by this single combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky."
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