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Originally Posted by JCF
Shaun, you should have taken the train out to Auvers. He and Theo are buried there.
And the village is very much the same as it was. The cafe he lived and died in is a tourist draw of course and along the lanes are markers where Vincent set up his easel to paint.
Very powerful feeling to walk to the edge of the village by the church h did a painting of to the cemetery on the edge of the cornfields...
Also; go to Arles and Aix en Provence - in late spring or summer when it's hot - you will see that Van Gogh and Cezanne did not exaggerate the landscape all that much. It really does look and feel like it does in their works.
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Agree and I'm definitely going back for a longer trip to drive into the countryside and make my way down to Nice.