MUSEE ORSAY, Van Gogh_Church At Auvers _Galerie Francoise Cachin
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The Musée d'Orsay houses several canvases by Vincent Van Gogh, including two interesting self-portraits, but the The Church at Auvers has a special charm because it represents the most important dilemma that gripped the artist in his last years of life.
You should know that Auvers-sur-Oise is a village located some thirty kilometers from Paris, on the banks of the Oise River, where Van Gogh had taken refuge in the spring of 1890, after leaving the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Rémy, to entrust himself to the care of Dr Paul Gachet.
Incredibly, in just two months, the painter created almost seventy works here, some even estimate as many as one hundred, but two of them are extremely significant: Wheatfield with Crows and The Church at Auvers that you are looking at, the last one he put his hand to before committing suicide....