Vincent's brush with happiness Misery and madness dominated much of Van Gogh's life, but he found beauty in a village near Paris, writes Rodney Bolt

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: May 25, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Vincent van Gogh died not in Arles, as many people think, but in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, just north of Paris. He had been there for 70 days and had painted 70 canvases. Fraught, exhausted, destitute, he shot himself in the chest on July 27, 1890.

In this last frenzied spurt of life, despite the "sadness and extreme loneliness" that gnawed at him, he was moved by the colour and beauty of early-summer Auvers. He painted gardens and chestnut blossom, wheat fields and rural lanes. When he portrayed the local chateau and the village church, he charged his palette with violets and blues, ...

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