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OST - 74x92 - 1889
In October 1889 van Gogh resumed painting of a fever ward
titled Ward in the Hospital in Arles. The large study had been unattended
for a while and van Gogh's interest was sparked when he read an article
regarding Fyodor Dostoyevsky's book Souvenirs de la maison des
morts ("Memories of the House of the Dead").
Vincent described the painting to his sister Wil,
"In the foreground a big black stove around which some grey and black
forms of patients and then behind the very long ward paved in red with the two
rows of white beds, the partitions white, but a lilac- or green-white, and the
windows with pink curtains, with green curtains, and in the background two
figures of nuns in black and white. The ceiling is violet with large
beams."
Debra Mancoff, author of Van Gogh's Flowers, comments,
"In his painting, Ward of Arles Hospital, the exaggerated length of the
corridor and the nervous contours that delineate the figures of the patients
express the emotional weight of his isolation and confinement."
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