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Artists In Exile: Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Rémy

Artists In Exile: Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Rémy

Sam Kemp @SamWKemp

In our Artists In Exile series, we have tended to focus on individuals who have, for whatever reason, been forced to leave their homeland. Here we have something quite different: an artist whose exile was self-imposed. In the spring of 1889, following months of treatment in a hospital in Arles, Vincent van Gogh committed himself to the Saint-Paul de Mausole psychiatric institution in Saint-Rémy de Provence……..

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