Vincent van Gogh, Winter Garden in Neuen, 1884
pen and ink, 515 × 380 mm
Collection of Prints and Drawings, inv. no. 1935-2791
After a short stay in Drenthe, Van Gogh travelled to his parents’ new home in Nuenen in December 1883, and left that settlement only in November 1885, a few months after the death of his father, a pastor. During this period two themes engaged his attention: the depiction of working peasants and of nature. He drew the bare trees in the garden of the pastor’s residence in the early spring of 1884, before April, because in letters written in April he mentions this and a very similar drawing now in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. This pen and ink drawing with its sombre atmosphere illustrates the artist’s melancholy and painful solitude.
From the Majovszky collection
Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
via l-amour-a-trois