VvG..#47

Vincent Van Gogh was so poor he had to trade his paintings for new canvasses and frames. The owner of the shop was immediately covering Vincent's art with white painting to blank them out and eventually resell them for virgin ones... how many masterpieces disapeared that way ?

.. The shop still exists , picture above, and is owned by the same family as in Vincent's time.. they are said to have had nightmares about the treasures they have erased...

It is a small village not far from Paris, Auvers-sur-Oise. In this place van Gogh painted his last works, the fields, the church which appeared on his paintings are still there unchanged. Vincent last days were very well recreated in Pialat's eponymous movie. But even in this nice and cosy little village, life got unbearable for Vincent and he took his life in this place where he used to live.

His brother Théo died one year later and was buried next to him in Auvers little cemetery .