ArtWall The Church at Auvers by Vincent Van Gogh Gallery Wrapped Canvas Art, 18 by 24-Inch

Art Wall's "The Church at Auvers" by Vincent van Gogh 18x24 Gallery Wrapped Canvas. The Church at Auvers, along with other canvases such as The Town Hall at Auvers and several paintings of small houses with thatched roofs — is reminiscent of scenes from the northern landscapes of his childhood and youth. A certain nostalgia for the north had already been apparent in his last weeks at Saint-Remy-de-Provence:, he wrote "While I was ill I nevertheless did some little canvases from memory which you will see later, memories of the North" He describes this painting in a letter to his sister Wilhelmina: " I have a larger picture of the village church — an effect in which the building appears to be violet-hued against a sky of simple deep blue color, pure cobalt; the stained-glass windows appear as ultramarine blotches, the roof is violet and partly orange. In the foreground some green plants in bloom and sand with the pink flow of sunshine in it. and once again it is nearly the same thing as the studies I did in Nuenen of the old tower and the cemetery, only it is probably that now the color is more expressive, more sumptuous. " The "simple deep blue" was also used in Portrait of Adeline Ravoux, painted in the same short period in Auvers-sur-Oise. The foreground of The Church at Auvers is brightly lit by the sun, but the church itself sits in its own shadow and "neither reflects nor emanates any light of its own".