the good samaritan 1890 vincent van gogh

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The Good Samaritan, 1890 by Vincent van Gogh. Royalty Free Stock Photo

The Good Samaritan, 1890 by Vincent van Gogh. On May 8, 1889, exhausted, ill, and out of control, Vincent Van Gogh committed himself to St. Paul s psychiatric asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, a small hamlet in the south of France. A former monastery, the sanitarium was located in an area of cornfields, vineyards and olive trees. There Van Gogh was allowed two small adjoining cells with barred windows. One room he used as his bedroom, and the other was his tiny studio. While there, Van Gogh not only painted the surrounding area and the interior of the asylum, he also copied paintings and drawings by other artists, making those paintings his own through modifications he made to the painting s composition, the colors and, of course, the brush strokes.