October 3, 2023
Van Gogh's Final Months at the Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay's acclaimed 2023 exhibition focused on the last, frenetic months Van Gogh spent painting in Auvers-sur-Oise before his death.
In the last 70 days of his life, in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, Vincent van Gogh painted at an almost superhuman pace — around one canvas a day. The Musée d'Orsay's 2023 exhibition gathered these final, feverish works.
Among them were the swirling 'Church at Auvers' and ominous wheatfields under troubled skies — paintings of breathtaking intensity made in the shadow of his decline and death in July 1890.
It was a rare, moving chance to stand inside the closing chapter of one of art's most tragic and beloved lives.
Image: “Vincent van Gogh - The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise, View from the Chevet - Google Art Project” — Vincent van Gogh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.