Detail View: The AMICA Library: A Corridor in the Asylum
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.48.190.2
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Gogh, Vincent Van
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Dutch
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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Dutch, 1853-1890
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Vincent van Gogh
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Title:
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A Corridor in the Asylum
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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late May or June, 1889
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Creation Start Date:
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1889
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Creation End Date:
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1889
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Materials and Techniques:
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Black chalk and gouache on pink Ingres paper
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Dimensions:
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25-5/8 x 19-5/16 in. (65.1 x 49.1 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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48.190.2
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Credit Line:
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Bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1948
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Rights:
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Context:
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This haunting view of a sharply receding corridor is the artist's most powerful depiction of the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in St. Rémy, where he spent twelve months near the end of his life and where he painted the Museum's oils of olive groves, cypresses, roses, and irises ('Women Picking Olives' (1995.535.44); 'Olive Orchard' (1998.325.1); 'Cypresses' (49.30); 'Wheat Field with Cypresses' (1993.132); 'Irises' (58.187); 'Vase of Roses' (1993.400.5)). The buildings (largely remains of a twelfth-century monastery) were divided into men's and women's wards, but most of the small cells looking out on the neglected garden were empty when Van Gogh was there. One of the rooms he was able to use as a studio. The artist sent this unusually large and colorful drawing to his brother Theo, to give a picture of his surroundings. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.dp48.190.2.R.tif
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