Madrid exhibit on Van Gogh's last works
Jun. 12, 2007

When Vincent van Gogh arrived in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise in late May, 1890, in search of a new life after a year in a mental asylum, he embarked on an explosion of creativity, producing more than 70 paintings within two months. It turned out to be a frenzied farewell: He shot himself on July 27 and died two days later, aged 37. Beginning Tuesday, Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum brings together 29 of the works in what is billed as a first-ever exhibition to focus on the Dutch artist's final days. Titled "The Final Landscapes," it features 26 paintings and three drawings gathered from galleries and private collections worldwide. Providing points of comparison are six paintings by Cezanne, Pissarro and Daubigny, who had also found inspiration in Auvers before Van Gogh. "I am working a good deal and quickly these days," Van Gogh wrote to his sister on June 13 from Auvers. "By doing this I seek to find an expression for the desperately swift passing away of things in modern life." Light and color — predominantly greens, blues and yellows — and Van Gogh's trademark rough, brick-shaped brush strokes burst forth from the paintings, with the artist returning to his favorite themes of fields and woods, country paths and farmhouses.

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