Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦"Falling Leaves," Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Van Gogh takes us to Les Alyscamps, a popular "lover's lane" near Arles, where sarcophagi from a Roman cemetery sit beside a path down a tree-lined lane. The scene is saturated in autumnal color. A man and woman converse; it's suggested this was van Gogh's view of himself and a dream woman. Off to the side, a woman in red walks alone. She especially resembles something from a Japanese print. She may be a single woman, hoping to meet a lover, or perhaps even be a prostitute.
The Alyscamps still stand today, if you're ever in Arles...
From the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands.
