Flowering Orchard Triptych
Van Gogh may have envisioned several triptychs of his paintings of orchards and flowering trees. There is, though, only one documented and sketched triptych grouping, one which Van Gogh thought of for Theo's apartment. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger displayed them in the apartment according to Van Gogh's sketch, the vertical Pink Peach Tree between the Pink Orchard and the White Orchard.
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