The Large Plane Trees

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The Large Plane Trees
Road Menders at Saint-Rémy
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ArtistVincent van Gogh
Year1889
Catalogue
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions73.4 cm × 91.8 cm (28.9 in × 36.1 in)
LocationCleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

The Large Plane Trees, also called Road Menders at Saint-Rémy is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. Painted in 1889 in Saint-Rémy, France, the painting depicts roadwork underneath autumn trees with yellow leaves. In actuality, "The Large Plane Trees" and the "Road Menders of Saint-Rémy" are two different paintings and are sometimes confused as one. Van Gogh painted "The Large Plane Trees" first on a red and white checkered table cloth. He later returned and painted it again on an art canvas.

It is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Description

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The Large Plane Trees is an oil painting on a 73.4 by 91.8 cm canvas.[1] Van Gogh depicted road work in Saint-Rémy, and the autumn yellow leaves of plane trees.[2][3]

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The Road Menders, Van Gogh's repetition of The Large Plane Trees.

This scene was repeated in The Road Menders, part of the Philips Collection in Washington D.C.[4] In 2013, the two paintings were displayed together as part of the Van Gogh Repetitions exhibition at the Phillips Collection before The Large Plane Trees was moved to the Cleveland Museum of Art.[5] Analysis shows that The Large Plane Trees was created first, with The Road Menders being a copy with virtually identical outlines.[5]

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References

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Further reading

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  • Marilyn Stokstad, David Cateforis, Stephen Addiss, Art History, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Retrieved 4 September 2023)
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