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His latest painting «Tree Roots», made the day of his suicide, just like his «Wheat Fields with Crows» highlighted his inner anxieties and his existential pain. His portraits of the time were able to immortalize the last figures of his life from Doctor Gachet to his daughter at the piano or Adeline Ravoux.
During his lifetime, Van Gogh did not want to sell his paintings and only one “La Vigne Rouge” was bought by Anna Boch, impressionist painter and Belgian patron.
Recognition of the artist was delayed due to his tormented life and violent death at only 37 years old.
His brother Theo, confidante and unconditional support, died a few days after him and it was his widow Johanna Van Gogh who spent her life organizing, cataloguing and exhibiting more than 800 paintings by the artist.
This Parisian exhibition pays a very fine tribute to the last days of this man, as tortured as he was brilliant, who despite himself became a legend of modern art.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Epis de blé - Auvers sur Oise - Juin 1890 - oil on canvas- 64 cm x 48 cm - Van Gogh Museum - Amsterdam ( Vincent Van Gogh Foundation)
© Van Gogh Museum - Amsterdam ( Vincent Van Gogh Foundation) -Service de presse/ Musée d’Orsay