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Les Alpilles by Vincent van Gogh, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1889

oil on canvas by Vincent Van Gogh )

Bluish-purple mountains stand out against the sky. The rugged, bare rock faces contrast with the charm of the flowering trees in the foreground. Van Gogh made this little painting in the walled wheatfield next to the hospital in Saint-Rémy (FR). He could look out of his bedroom window onto that field, with the Alpilles mountain range in the distance.  Held at Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands