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''Farms near Auvers'' or ''Thatched Cottages by a Hill'' is an oil painting by
Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...
that he painted in July 1890 when he lived in
Auvers-sur-Oise Auvers-sur-Oise (, literally ''Auvers on Oise'') is a commune in the department of Val-d'Oise, on the northwestern outskirts of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It is associated with several famous artists, the most promine ...
, France. The painting is an example of the double-square canvases that he employed in his last landscapes. Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, after he left an asylum at Saint-Rémy in May 1890. Shortly after arriving at Auvers, Van Gogh wrote his sister Wil: "Here there are roofs of mossy thatch which are superb, and of which I’ll certainly do something." The painting appears to be unfinished. It is similar to ''
Thatched Cottages and Houses ''Thatched Cottages and Houses'' is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he painted in May 1890 when he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, a ...
'', a painting thought to have been executed shortly after arrival at Auvers. In 1933 the painting was bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop to the
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in
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, though it is currently on loan to The National Gallery. It was painted the same month Van Gogh died.


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Auvers size 30 canvases In May 1890, on his arrival in Auvers-sur-Oise, Vincent van Gogh continued his work mainly with size 30 canvases, and created more than a dozen such paintings. Image:Van Gogh Wheat Stacks with Reaper.jpg, ''Harvest near Auvers'' (1890). Toledo ...
* ''Cottages'' (Van Gogh series) *
Double-square painting A double-square painting is a painting made on uncommonly large canvases, which have one dimension that is twice the size of the other. Vincent van Gogh used double-squares almost exclusively during the final weeks of his life in Auvers, in June ...
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Houses at Auvers ''Houses at Auvers'' is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It was created towards the end of May or beginning of June 1890, shortly after he had moved to Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town northwest of Paris, France. His move was prompted by his d ...
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Impressionism Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passa ...
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List of works by Vincent van Gogh List of works by Vincent van Gogh is an incomplete list of paintings and other works by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. The listing is ordered by year and then by catalogue number. While more accurate dating of Van Gogh's work is often diffic ...
* ''Peasant Character Studies'' (Van Gogh series) *
Postimpressionism Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction aga ...
* ''Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy'' (Van Gogh series)


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Paintings by Vincent van Gogh Paintings of Auvers-sur-Oise by Vincent van Gogh 1890 paintings Collection of the Tate galleries Farming in art Unfinished paintings {{19C-painting-stub