Flowering Orchards (Van Gogh Series) - Orchard in Blossom, Bordered By Cypresses

Orchard in Blossom, Bordered By Cypresses

To his friend Emile Bernard, Van Gogh wrote of his enthusiasm of painting orchards, "At the moment I am absorbed in the blooming fruit trees, pink peach trees, yellow-white pear trees. My brush stroke has no system at all. I hit the canvas with irregular touches of the brush, which I leave as they are. Patches of thickly laid-on colour, spots of canvas left uncovered, here or there portions that are left absolutely unfinished, repetitions, savageries; in short, I am inclined to think that the result is so disquieting and irritating as to be a godsend to those people who have preconceived ideas about technique." In the same letter he made a sketch of Orchard in Bloom, Bordered by Cypresses, "the entrance to a Provençal orchard with its yellow fences, its enclosure of black cypresses (against the mistral), its characteristic vegetables of varying greens: yellow lettuces, onions, garlic, emerald leeks."

• Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses
  April, 1888
  Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (F513)

• Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses
  April, 1888
  Private collection (F554)