{"id":1335,"date":"2013-10-31T14:24:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T20:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/small-vase.flywheelsites.com\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2015-01-21T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:34:25","slug":"van-gogh-at-the-seaside-saintes-maries-de-la-mer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.vangoghgallery.com\/index.php\/en\/2013\/10\/31\/van-gogh-at-the-seaside-saintes-maries-de-la-mer\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Gogh at the Seaside – Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (Saint Marys of the Sea) is the capital of Camargue in the south of France.\u00a0 Van Gogh<\/a> made a trip to the small Mediterranean fishing village at the beginning of June in the summer of 1888.\u00a0 At the time, Van Gogh was living in Arles and took the week-long trip hoping to recover from a bout of health issues<\/a>.\u00a0 While on the trip, he created a number of seaside drawings and paintings; two paintings of the sea, one painting of the village and nine drawings.\u00a0 On June 4, 1888 he wrote to Theo saying,<\/p>\n

\u201cI brought three canvases and have covered them – two marines, a view of the village, and then some drawings which I will send you by post when I return to Arles tomorrow.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the paintings was Three White Cottages in Saintes-Maries<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Van Gogh said,<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not think there are 100 houses in the village, or town. The chief building, after the old church and an ancient fortress, is the barracks. And the houses – like the ones on our heaths and peat bogs in Drenthe; you will see some specimens of them in the drawings.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n
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The other two paintings were seascapes.\u00a0 In Seascape at Saintes-Maries<\/em>, Van Gogh experimented with the light effects on the water Van Gogh said,<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mediterranean has the colours of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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Another version of Seascape at Saintes-Maries<\/em> has helped researchers analyze Van Gogh\u2019s working methods while visiting the fishing town.\u00a0 According to the Van Gogh Museum<\/a> this painting has grains of sand dried in the paint.\u00a0 A conservator was able to analyze the painting and determine that Van Gogh applied a layer of paint, sand blew over it, and then he added another layer of paint before the first layer had time to dry.\u00a0 The sand granules were moved by his brush and left trails of while canvas exposed.\u00a0 They also discovered that final touchups were made to the painting when it was returned to Van Gogh\u2019s studio in Arles.<\/p>\n

In his letter Van Gogh had said,<\/p>\n

\u201cThe shore here is sandy, neither cliffs nor rocks – like Holland without the dunes, and bluer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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It is evident that Van Gogh found some level of peace at Stes-Maries,<\/p>\n

\u201cOne night I went for a walk by the sea along the empty shore. It was not gay, but neither was it sad – it was – beautiful. The deep blue sky was flecked with clouds of a blue deeper than the fundamental blue of intense cobalt, and others of a clearer blue, like the blue whiteness of the Milky Way. In the blue depth the stars were sparkling, greenish, yellow, white, pink, more brilliant, more emeralds, lapis lazuli, rubies, sapphires. The sea was very deep ultramarine – the shore a sort of violet and faint russet as I saw it, and on the dunes (they are about seventeen feet high) some bushes Prussian blue.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before Van Gogh left to return home, he captured some fishing boats in drawings which were then turned to paintings.\u00a0 On June 5, 1888 he wrote,<\/p>\n

\u201cI made the drawing of the boats just as I was going to leave, very early in the morning, and I am working on the picture after it, a size 30 canvas with more sea and sky on the right.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n
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Letter Sources:<\/strong>
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