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''Boats du Rhône'' is a series of two sketches (a small one in a letter,〔(Letter 660, sketch A )〕 the other very large and detailed with a (reed pen )) and three oil paintings, listed below, created by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh while living in Arles, France, during August, 1888. ==Genesis== Van Gogh described his intention in a letter written August 13, 1888: Painted a few hundred meters behind his Yellow House, where the railway yard abuts the Rhône river, he had written his brother Theo two weeks earlier: A series was created, as argued by the Van Gogh Museum's curators Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, because van Gogh "split the subject he describes here into two, perhaps because he realized that a high vantage point and a sunset are very hard to reconcile in a single composition." They conclude, "We do not know exactly when the latter two studies were made; there may be a connection with letter (697 ), in which Van Gogh says he has painted a sunset."〔http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let652/letter.html See www.vangoghletters.org, Letter 652, n. 13〕 A leading 20th century van Gogh scholar, Jan Hulsker explained: This argument has been expanded to: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boats du Rhône」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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