Vincent van Gogh - Country Road in Provence at Night

Painted in 1890 and exhibited at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo in the Netherlands, Road in Provence at Night, also known as Road with Cypress and Star, is marked by a poignant melancholy: Van Gogh is aware that he is close to death and paints the evening star and the crescent moon, which represent the old and the new, divided by the cypress tree, which resembles an obelisk, the symbol of death.

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