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590 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 30 March 1888.
in note 5:
...Van Gogh must have painted Orchard bordered by cypresses (F 554 / JH 1388) and Peach tree in blossom (F...
594 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 April 1888.
in translation:
...a certain passion. I also need a starry night with Cypresses or — perhaps above a field of ripe...
596 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 12 April 1888.
in translation:
...with its shelter (against the mistral), black cypresses, with its typical vegetables of various...
in sketch A:
Orchard bordered by cypresses (F - / JH 1390), letter sketch. Colour notations: at top left: ‘ciel gros...
in note 2:
...of a peach and pear orchard: Orchard bordered by cypresses (F 513 / JH 1389) and Orchard with peach trees in...
in note 3:
...that Van Gogh first made the sketch, Orchard bordered by cypresses (F - / JH 1390), on the facing page before returning to the letter. He made two paintings of the subject: Orchard bordered by cypresses (F 554 / JH 1388) and Orchard surrounded by cypresses (F 513 / JH 1389), the first, smaller work probably preceding...
597 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 13 April 1888.
in translation:
...represent a very large orchard with a border of cypresses and large pear trees and apple trees. The...
in note 8:
...At any rate they included Orchard bordered by cypresses (F 513 / JH 1389) and Orchard with peach trees in...
599 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Thursday, 19 April 1888.
in note 5:
...blossom (F 556 / JH 1383), Orchard bordered by cypresses (F 513 / JH 1389), Orchard with peach trees in...
600 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 20 April 1888.
in note 7:
...cypresses (F 513 / JH 1389), Orchard with peach trees in blossom (F 551 / JH 1396), Orchard (F 552 / JH 1381) and Orchard with pear trees in blossom (F 406 / JH 1399). Cf. also letter 597. The three small studies are Orchard bordered by cypresses (F 554 / JH 1388), Peach tree in blossom (F 557 / JH 1397) and Peach tree in blossom (F 399 / JH 1398). They measure 32 x 40 cm, 48.5 x 38 cm and 41 x 33 cm respectively. The ‘large one of a cherry tree that I worked to death’ has not survived; Van Gogh described the work in letter 599 to Bernard...
602 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 1 May 1888.
in note 11:
...cypresses (F 513 / JH 1389) and Orchard with peach trees in blossom (F 551 / JH 1396), which were still at an early stage when he wrote letter 597, Orchard (F 552 / JH 1381), Orchard with pear trees in blossom (F 406 / JH 1399) and the large study of the cherry tree that he had spoiled. With the exception of the last of these, which is not known and which he must have destroyed (see letter 606), these are the ten he wanted to send. He did not count the small studies Orchard bordered by cypresses (F 554 / JH 1388), Peach tree in blossom (F 557 / JH 1397) and Peach tree in blossom (F 399 / JH 1398) as part of the decoration; for that matter he did not include them in the summary in letter 600 either...
606 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 May 1888.
in note 4:
...cypresses (F 513 / JH 1389), [8] Orchard with peach trees in blossom (F 551 / JH 1396), [9] Orchard (F 552 / JH 1381), [10] Orchard with pear trees in blossom (F 406 / JH 1399), [11] Orchard bordered by cypresses (F...
608 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 10 May 1888.
in translation:
...idea of the large orchards surrounded by cypresses around here. Well, I’ve already written and...
in note 8:
Orchard bordered by cypresses (F 513 / JH 1389) and Orchard with peach trees in blossom (F 551 / JH 1396). We...
615 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 May 1888.
in note 3:
...F 551 / JH 1396) and Orchard bordered by cypresses (F 513 / JH 1389). The former is the work with...
626 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between Saturday, 16 and Wednesday, 20 June 1888.
in note 22:
...also once owned the painting Orchard bordered by cypresses (F 554 / JH 1388). See Account book 2001, p. 20...
631 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 25 June 1888.
in note 5:
The paintings Orchard bordered by cypresses (F 513 / JH 1389) and Orchard with peach trees in blossom (F 551...
638 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 July 1888.
in translation:
...of the brightest orange, hundred-year-old cypresses, ash trees and willows, rock oaks...
653 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
in translation:
...oleander and a vine. At the end, black cypresses against little low white houses with orange roofs...
...hay spread out in long rows. A weeping ash and some cedars and cypresses, the cedars yellowish and spherical, the cypresses rising high, blue-green. At the end oleander and a corner of green-blue sky...
657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
in translation:
...of a Spanish ship. It was in a grove of cypresses, and it was pure Monticelli. Ah, these...
678 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888.
in note 10:
...he had intended for her, and Orchard bordered by cypresses (F 554 / JH 1388). We know that Willemien had...
683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in translation:
...near here, in Avignon, and I see the same cypresses and oleanders. I’ve tried to put something of...
...better. My dear Theo, when you’ve seen the cypresses, the oleanders, the sun down here — and...
695 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in note 13:
...poet’s garden’) (F 479 / JH 1601) and Row of cypresses with a couple strolling (‘The poet’s...
709 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 21 October 1888.
in translation:
...croquis of my last canvas. A row of green cypresses against a pink sky with a pale lemon crescent...
in sketch A:
Row of cypresses with a couple strolling (‘The poet’s garden’) (F - / JH 1616), letter sketch
in note 6:
The letter sketch Row of cypresses with a couple strolling (‘The poet’s garden’) (F - / JH 1616) is...
710 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 22 October 1888.
in translation:
...garden, two bottle-green and bottle-shaped cypresses, three little chestnut trees with...
719 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 11 or Monday, 12 November 1888.
in translation:
...of our garden at Etten with cabbages, cypresses, dahlias and figures. Then a Woman reading a novel...
720 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 12 November 1888.
in translation:
...few emerald-green cedar or cypress bushes. Behind these cypresses one catches a glimpse of a bed of...
722 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 21 November 1888.
in translation:
...mysterious, of extraordinary beauty — Prussian blue cypresses, trees with dead leaves in every...
783 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 25 June 1889.
in translation:
...12 no. 30 canvases on the stocks. Two studies of cypresses of that difficult shade of bottle green. I’ve...
...perhaps the brightest canvas I’ve done. The cypresses still preoccupy me, I’d like to do...
...right. I think that of the two canvases of cypresses, the one I’m making the croquis of will...
in sketch A:
Cypresses (F - / JH 1750), letter sketch
in note 2:
...to Theo a week later (see letter 784): Trees with ivy in the garden of the asylum (F 609 / JH 1693), Cypresses (F 613 / JH 1746), Cypresses (F 620 / JH 1748), Fields with poppies (F 581 / JH 1751), Wheatfield and cypresses (F 717 / JH 1756), Starry night (F 612 / JH 1731), Olive trees with the Alpilles in the background (F...
in note 3:
Cypresses (F 613 / JH 1746) and Cypresses (F 620 / JH 1748).
in note 13:
The letter sketch Cypresses (F - / JH 1750) was made after the painting of the same name F 613 / JH 1746.
in note 14:
The two drawings after the paintings of cypresses (n. 2 above) are Cypresses (F 1525 / JH 1747) and Cypresses (F 1524 / JH 1749). The other two drawings Van Gogh refers to here cannot be identified; they were probably in the batch he sent to Theo a week later (see n. 2 above).
784 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
in translation:
...better than my reasoning. I have a canvas of cypresses with a few ears of wheat, poppies, a blue...
in note 16:
...with ivy in the garden of the asylum (F 609 / JH 1693), Wheatfield and cypresses (F 1538 / JH 1757) after Wheatfield and cypresses (F 717 / JH 1756), Wheatfield after a storm (F 1547 / JH 1724) after Wheatfield after a storm (F 611 / JH 1723), Starry night (F 1540 / JH 1732) after Starry night (F 612 / JH 1731), Cypresses (F 1524 / JH 1749) after the first state of Cypresses (F 620 / JH 1748), Olive trees with the Alpilles in the background (F 1544 / JH 1741) after Olive trees with the Alpilles in the background (F 712 / JH 1740), Cypresses (F 1525 / JH 1747) after Cypresses (F 613 / JH 1746), Wheatfield (F 1548 / JH 1726) after Wheatfield (F...
in note 21:
Cypresses (F 620 / JH 1748).
800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.
in note 18:
...F 618 / JH 1773)) in the studio. See also cat. Otterlo 2003, pp. 301-303. The second pair (in the order they were made) are Wheatfield and cypresses (F 717 / JH 1756) and Wheatfield and cypresses (F 615 / JH 1755).
803 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 19 September 1889.
in note 4:
...for his mother and Willemien: Wheatfield and cypresses (F 743 / JH 1790), an unknown painting of an...
806 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 28 September 1889.
in translation:
Wheatfield and cypresses...
in note 2:
Wheatfield and cypresses (F 717 / JH 1756).
in note 3:
Wheatfield and cypresses (F 615 / JH 1755).
in note 5:
Cypresses (F 613 / JH 1746). Van Gogh kept for himself the other painting of cypresses: F 620 / JH 1748; in April 1890 he decided to give it to the critic Albert Aurier (see letter 863).
in note 12:
Wheatfield and cypresses (F 743 / JH 1790) is a smaller version of the works listed in nn. 2 and 3 above; it...
808 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 5 October 1889.
in translation:
...trees, the fig trees, the vineyards, the cypresses must be more accentuated, all characteristic...
811 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 21 October 1889.
in note 5:
...were a painting of olive trees, Wheatfield and cypresses (F 743 / JH 1790), Reaper (F 619 / JH 1792...
812 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 21 October 1889.
in translation:
...Wheatfield with reaper – Wheatfields and cypresses – Interior – Ploughed fields, morning effect...
in note 3:
Wheatfield and cypresses (F 743 / JH 1790).
822 To Emile Bernard. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in translation:
...of angels, elegant, my word, a terrace with two cypresses, which I like very much; there’s an...
823 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in translation:
...desire to do for the mountains and for the cypresses what I’ve just done for the olive trees...
...me 10 metres. Then I’m going to attack the cypresses and the mountains. I think that this must be...
824 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 7 December 1889.
in translation:
...Reaper – Working with plough – Wheatfield with cypresses – Orchard in blossom – Portrait.
in note 6:
Wheatfield and cypresses (F 743 / JH 1790). It is not known if the canvas came into the possession of Mrs van...
829 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 19 December 1889.
in translation:
...a great desire to do more of both the cypresses and the Alpilles, and often going on long walks in...
836 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 4 January 1890.
in translation:
...canvases of cypresses and mountains.
...the time to observe the character of the pines, cypresses &c. in the pure air here, the lines that...
850 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 1 February 1890.
in translation:
...rather than one done. The landscapes with the cypresses! Ah, that wouldn’t be easy. Aurier feels...
853 To Albert Aurier. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 or Monday, 10 February 1890.
in translation:
...like Meissonier’. I shall add a study of cypresses for you to the next consignment I send...
...planning to return to the fray to attack the cypresses. The study I have intended for you depicts a...
in note 18:
The work intended for Aurier is Cypresses (F 620 / JH 1748), which Van Gogh painted in June 1889 (see letter...
854 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 12 February 1890.
in note 6:
Cypresses (F 620 / JH 1748). Van Gogh painted it in June 1889 (see letter 783) and later worked on it again...
in note 7:
...in the catalogue. ‘Le cyprès’ must be Cypresses (F 613 / JH 1746), considering that Van Gogh...
863 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 29 April 1890.
in translation:
...and you must see that he gets it. Then the cypresses are for Mr Aurier. I would have liked to redo...
in note 9:
Read: ‘Aurier’. The work in question is Cypresses (F 620 / JH 1748). Cf. cat. Otterlo 2003, pp. 296-300.
867 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 3 May 1890.
in note 8:
Cypresses (F 620 / JH 1748); see letter 863, n. 9.
RM21 To Joseph Jacob Isaäcson. Auvers-sur-Oise, Sunday, 25 May 1890.
in translation:
...is limited to naming these two things — the cypresses – the olive trees. Let others better and...
877 To Theo van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, Tuesday, 3 June 1890.
in translation:
...him last week. One aloes with marigolds and cypresses, then last Sunday white roses, vines and a...
879 To Willemien van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, Thursday, 5 June 1890.
in translation:
...one with plants from the south, aloes, cypresses, marigolds, the other with white roses, vines and...
880 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 5 June 1890.
in note 7:
Van Gogh had given Cypresses (F 620 / JH 1748) to Aurier; see letter 863, n. 9.

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