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Is the ward in Arles painting from his hospital stay in Arles? Or the one in Saint-Remy? (I've sometimes seen the hospital referred to as in Arles, so it isn't an incredibly straightforward question.)
When I started researching his letters for paintings for this article van Gogh said to his sister on April 30, while in Arles and with plans to go to Saint-Remy that he was painting a picture of a ward: "Notwithstanding this I am working, and have just finished two pictures of the hospital, one of a ward, a very long ward, with rows of beds with white curtains, in which some figures of patients are moving. The walls, the ceiling with big beams, all in white, lilac-white or green-white. Here and there a window with a pink or bright green curtain. The floor paved with red bricks. At the end a door with a crucifix over it. It is all very, very simple. And then, as a pendant, the inner court. It is an arcaded gallery like those one finds in Arab buildings, all white-washed. In front of those galleries an antique garden with a pond in the middle, and eight flower beds, forget-me-nots, Christmas roses, anemones, ranunculus, wallflowers, daisies, and so on. And under the gallery orange trees and oleander."
Thanks so much!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 00:21, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Carole, this one too - like the hospital ward in Arles is the wrong place, and we probably should have both images in a Hospital in Arles section [1]...
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Is the ward in Arles painting from his hospital stay in Arles? Or the one in Saint-Remy? (I've sometimes seen the hospital referred to as in Arles, so it isn't an incredibly straightforward question.)
When I started researching his letters for paintings for this article van Gogh said to his sister on April 30, while in Arles and with plans to go to Saint-Remy that he was painting a picture of a ward: "Notwithstanding this I am working, and have just finished two pictures of the hospital, one of a ward, a very long ward, with rows of beds with white curtains, in which some figures of patients are moving. The walls, the ceiling with big beams, all in white, lilac-white or green-white. Here and there a window with a pink or bright green curtain. The floor paved with red bricks. At the end a door with a crucifix over it. It is all very, very simple. And then, as a pendant, the inner court. It is an arcaded gallery like those one finds in Arab buildings, all white-washed. In front of those galleries an antique garden with a pond in the middle, and eight flower beds, forget-me-nots, Christmas roses, anemones, ranunculus, wallflowers, daisies, and so on. And under the gallery orange trees and oleander."
Thanks so much!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 00:21, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Carole, this one too - like the hospital ward in Arles is the wrong place, and we probably should have both images in a Hospital in Arles section [1]...