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VINCENT VAN GOGH (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise). Landscape from Saint-Rémy. June 1889. Oil on canvas. In 1889, Vincent van Gogh was voluntarily admitted to the mental hospital Saint-Paul-de-Mausole. The motif is his interpretation of the view from his room, which he depicted in several versions with varying conditions of weather and light. The serpentine brush-strokes and clear contours are characteristic of the late van Gogh. The rolling cloud formations herald a less sober mode of painting than Impressionism. The landscape as motif is on its way to becoming a state of soul, not least under the influence of Paul Gauguin, with whom van Gogh painted in Arles in 1888.