Focus on Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy (Van Gogh series) and explore the Portraits.
Van Gogh, known for his landscapes, seemed to find painting portraits his greatest ambition. To his sister he wrote, "I should like to paint portraits which appear after a century to people living then as apparitions. By which I mean that I do not endeavor to achieve this through photographic resemblance, but my means of our impassioned emotions – that is to say using our knowledge and our modern taste for color as a means of arriving at the expression and the intensification of the character."While Van Gogh had few opportunities to make portraits, he completed at least three at Saint-Rémy.
Saint-Rémy