The Décoration for the Yellow House
- The Décoration for the Yellow House
The "Décoration" for the Yellow House was the main project Vincent van Gogh focused in Arles, from August 1888 till his breakdown the day before Christmas. This "Décoration" had no pre-defined form or size, the central "idea of the Décoration" grew step by step, with the progress of his work. Starting with the "Sunflowers", portraits were included in the next step. Finally, mid-September 1888, the "idea" got shape: From this time he concentrated on size 30 canvases ("Toiles de 30"), which were all meant to form part of this "Décoration". [This fact, widely neglected for decades, recently seems to have become common knowledge; see Zemel, Schneede.]
First idea: The "Sunflowers", August 1888
econd step: The Portraits, September - October 1888
Third step and definite solution: The "Toiles de 30-Décoration", October - December 1888
* For a related project by Van Gogh executed at the same time, see The Roulin Family
Epilogue: The "Toiles de 30", January - April 1889
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pring Subjects
Continuation
Even later, in Saint-Rémy as well as in Auvers, size 30 canvases form the body of Van Gogh's work, and even more: he continued conceiving series and groups of work based on this size . See The Wheat Field, the Copies after Millet, and others and the Display at Les XX 1890, all from Saint-Rèmy, and the Auvers size 30 canvases.
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References
* Dorn, Roland: "Décoration: Vincent van Gogh's Werkreihe für das Gelbe Haus in Arles", Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zürich & New York 1990 ISBN 3-487-09098-8 / ISSN 0175-9558
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