Van Gogh, Flowering Garden

Van Gogh, Flowering Garden, July 1888. Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm. Private collection.

 

Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
Arles, c. 19 July 1888

My dear Theo,
Many thanks for your letter, which gave me great pleasure,

 arriving just exactly at the moment when I was still dazed with the sun and the strain of wrestling with a rather big canvas.
I have a new drawing of a garden full of flowers, and two painted studies as well.
I must send you a new order for paints and canvas, rather a heavy one. only it is not at all urgent.

 What really might be urgent is the canvas, because I have a batch of stretchers that I have taken the studies out of,

and I ought to be putting new canvas on them between times....... .....At this time, Vincent was 35 year old