Vincent Van Gogh, The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Remy), 1889 (via alyama)

In 1889, after suffering a severe hallucinatory seizure, Van Gogh committed himself to an asylum near Saint-Remy. While walking through the town that fall, he was impressed by the sight of men repairing a road beneath immense plane trees. Rushing to capture the yellowing leaves, he painted this composition on an unusual cloth with a pattern of small red diamonds, visible in the picture’s many unpainted areas. “In spite of the cold,” he wrote to his brother, “I have gone on working outside till now, and I think it is doing me good and the work too.” - from the Cleveland Museum of Art description