Vincent Van Gogh is known for masterpieces featuring beautiful skies, vibrant colors and mirific lights. This drawing opens us to a lesser know area of his work.
Van Gogh was a prolific writer. He wrote numerous letters to his brother Theodorus, an art dealer, communicating progress on his work, and would often slip a few drawings in the envelope. Living on meager means, the envelope itself was from time to time also used as a support for additional drawings. Those sketches were occasionally the base for paintings.
Created in Nuenen, The Netherlands, this particular drawing representing pollard birches is part of a series of sketches that Vincent sent to his brother Theo in April 1884.
Pollard birches, 1884Pencil, pen in black ink on paper
39 x 54 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
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