Shoes
1888 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 18 x 21 3/4 in. (45.7 x 55.2 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1992
Van Gogh painted several still lifes of shoes or boots during his Paris period. This picture, painted later, in Arles, evinces a unique return to the earlier motif. However, here Van Gogh has placed the shoes within a specific spatial context: namely, the red-tile floor of the Yellow House. Not only may we identify the setting, but perhaps the owner of the shoes as well. It has been suggested that this
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Shoes (1888) by Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert in the southern Netherlands, the son of a pastor. In 1869, he took his first job, working in the Hague branch of an international art dealing firm. He began to write to his younger brother Theo, a correspondence which continued for the rest of Van Gogh's life.
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