For nearly a year of his life, Vincent Van Gogh stayed at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole mental hospital in Saint-Remy, undergoing treatment, and painting when he could.
Looking through my pictures from our walk to and around the hospital, I realized I could recognize some of his images, and some of the feeling in them; if I make the trip again, I might try to make a closer connection, but here are a small selection.
The room, by the way, is not what it seems: although it's an accurate view of the room he occupied at the hospital, he made the painting of his remarkably similar room in Arles.
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