Place depicted in Van Gogh's final painting found with help of postcard

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The exact location from where Vincent van Gogh is likely to have painted his final masterpiece, perhaps just hours before his death, has been pinpointed with the help of a postcard.

The scene in Tree Roots, a painting of trunks and roots growing on a hillside near the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, was first spotted on a card dating from 1900 to 1910 by Wouter van der Veen, the scientific director of the Institut Van Gogh.

Following a comparative study of the painting, the postcard and the current condition of the hillside, researchers at the Van Gogh Museum and Bert Maes, a dendrologist specialising in historical vegetation, concluded that it was “highly plausible” that the place where Van Gogh made his final brushstrokes had been unearthed.

The main trunk in the painting has survived the 130 years since the Dutch master’s death.

“The overgrowth on the postcard shows very clear similarities to the shape of the roots on Van Gogh’s painting,”  senior researcher at the Van Gogh Museum said.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/28/location-van-gogh-final-painting-tree-roots-postcard

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If someone painted that today would it be a masterpiece

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38 minutes ago, Kromatica said:

If someone painted that today would it be a masterpiece

It's a masterpiece not because of the subject matter, but because of the master who painted it in his final days

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This is the last piece he did before committing suicide.. That's incredible !

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Van Gogh was such a talented guy but this particular one looks so ugly 

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7 minutes ago, MANiCURE 6 said:

This is the last piece he did before committing suicide.. That's incredible !

Isnt there doubts whether he rlly committed suicide?

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Just now, KanyeWest said:

Van Gogh was such a talented guy but this particular one looks so ugly 

I mean, he was nearing his final moments...

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Saw this yesterday in the news, it was especially touching to me after just watching 'Loving Vincent' 

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1 hour ago, Kromatica said:

If someone painted that today would it be a masterpiece

Honestly probably not but his other paintings are insanely gorgeous. Im more in awe of Monet's paintings though

Always etheral and magical looking with pastel soft colors

Ugh dying, no choice but to stan

 

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22 minutes ago, KanyeWest said:

Van Gogh was such a talented guy but this particular one looks so ugly 

honestly, I really like it. the element of distortion paired with the gorgeous colors gives me a feeling I can't describe and it's quite telling of where his head was at and how he perceived the world around him in his last days

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39 minutes ago, KanyeWest said:

Isnt there doubts whether he rlly committed suicide?

I don't think so

I've read that he shot himself in the stomach and died two days later

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20 minutes ago, MANiCURE 6 said:

I don't think so

I've read that he shot himself in the stomach and died two days later

There's been experts saying it might've been an accident with two kids involved. Check it out

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