柏树下的两个女人
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), 普罗旺斯的圣雷米, 1890年2月
布面油画,
43.5 cm x 27.2 cm
Credits: 凡高美术馆，阿姆斯特丹（文森特·凡高基金会）
The slender cypress is a characteristic feature of the landscape in the southern French region of Provence. Van Gogh stayed there in 1889-1890, in a psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy (FR). He thought the cypresses were beautiful and compared their shape and proportions to those of an Egyptian obelisk.
He painted the trees with swirling brushstrokes in various shades of green and black, with an occasional touch of red for contrast. The colour of the trees was challenging – in a letter to his brother, Van Gogh called it 'that difficult shade of bottle green'.