Veduta di Auvers con la chiesa

Van Gogh painted this in the summer of 1890, in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise just north of Paris, where he spent the last two months of his life. He had come there in May to be near a doctor, Paul Gachet, who looked after him, and he worked at a furious pace, sometimes a canvas a day. The panel is small, only about a foot across. It looks down over the village toward the church, the stone houses picked out in blue, the grain fields worked up in restless strokes under a heavy sky. He made two paintings of this same church that summer. He died at the end of July, a few weeks after this one, from a gunshot wound to the chest.