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Date: 1889

Museum: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, United States)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

This is a late work by Vincent van Gogh executed at a time when his style was at its most agitated and expressive. It is one of a series of olive orchards painted while the artist was a patient at the asylum at Saint Rémy in Provence, where he had committed himself after suffering a series of mental breakdowns. Van Gogh refers to the painting in a letter of July 1889 as an orchard of olive trees with gray leaves,

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