Olive Trees
1889 · Oil on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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About this work
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
- Year
- 1889
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 72.7 × 92.1 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
- Series
- Olive Trees series
An olive orchard outside the asylum at Saint-Rémy, the gnarled trunks and silver-green canopies rendered in short, stippled strokes against a violet ground and a pale sky. This is one of five pictures of olive groves Van Gogh painted in November 1889, working outdoors on clear, cold days in bright sun. He made them partly in answer to the Christ in the Garden of Olives canvases that Gauguin and Émile Bernard had just painted from imagination, which he dismissed as abstractions. His own groves would be, he wrote, a rather harsh and coarse realism beside theirs, rustic and smelling of the soil. The dotted handling owes something to Seurat, but the rhythm of the trees is entirely his. The painting belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art through the gift of Walter and Leonore Annenberg.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Silver-green canopies on a violet ground in stippled strokes, for a living room, dining room or study at 24×18 in natural wood. A white, sage or warm grey wall; it pairs with Wheat Field with Cypresses for two Saint-Rémy landscapes.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1889)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, dining room, study or library
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×18. Prints at 16×12, 24×18 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
