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Chinese Oil Paintings For Wholesale-Art History-Introduction-Shoes
Shoes
7/22/2006 1:40:35 AM
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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.
Unlike the first works, Van Gogh has here placed the shoes within a specific spatial context: namely, the red-tile floor of the Yellow House.
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Not only may we identify the setting, but perhaps the owner of the boots as well.
It has been suggested that "this still life of a peasant''''''''s old boots" may have been those of the peasant, Patience Escalier, whose portrait Van Gogh executed around the same time, late summer 1888.-
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Shoes, 1888