Van Gogh and the Olive Groves

This cross-disciplinary study marries art historical scholarship and rigorous scientific analysis to resolve questions about Vincent van Gogh's profound and deeply personal olive grove series.

About the author

Nienke Bakker is a senior curator of paintings at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Nicole R. Myers is Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Summary

Combining deep focus with a multifaceted approach to reveal formal, technical, and spiritual aspects of the olive tree motif that dominated the painter’s production during his time in a Provençal asylum

Product details

• Authors: Nienke Bakker, Nienke Myers Bakker, Nicole Myers
• Assisted by: Nienke Bakker (Editor), Nicole Myers (Editor), Nicole R Myers (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780300260076
• ISBN: 978-0-300-26007-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History of Art, Modernism, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Individual artists, art monographs, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Nature in art, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections