His illness and his uncertainty about the future became too much. On 27 July , he walked into a wheatfield and shot himself in the chest with a pistol. The wounded artist staggered back to his room at the Auberge Ravoux. Vincent was buried at Auvers on 30 July His legacy was a large body of art works: over paintings and almost 1, works on paper. The collection of the museum contains more than two hundred paintings, five hundred drawings and seven hundred letters from Vincent van Gogh, as well as his collection of Japanese prints, and the library comprises more than 23, works.
It is thanks to these letters that we know how Theo felt during this period:. Van Gogh had been a good friend of Joseph Roulin since the summer and the postman was a great support for Vincent in Arles. I received sad news today. Vincent is gravely ill. I don't know what's wrong, but I shall have to go there as my presence is required. They were afraid of the painter and wanted him out of the Yellow House.
Thirty local residents signed a petition to have Vincent committed to an asylum. He concluded from their statements that Vincent was indeed suffering from insanity and posed a danger to those around him, and therefore might have to be committed to an asylum. Vincent realized in April that he could not risk living alone any more for the time being. He would eventually spend a year there. Vincent arrived at the asylum on 8 May , accompanied by the Reverend Salles.
Dr Peyron determined that Van Gogh was suffering from a form of epilepsy, accompanied by acute insanity and hallucinations. The rhythm and structure at the asylum initially brought Vincent some respite. He was allowed to set up one of the rooms as a studio and he could also work outside the institution when he felt well enough.
Painting was the best remedy against his illness, but he was unable to work during his attacks. Vincent found this idleness unbearable. He worked there frequently, making the most beautiful drawings and paintings.
Some of these show the garden as a whole, while others are close-ups of flowers, plants and all manner of insects he found there. It will, I hope, suffice to say that I feel decidedly incapable of starting to take a new studio again and living there alone, here in Arles or elsewhere — for the moment not possible. The first period in the asylum went well. Vincent felt good and after a while he was allowed to work outside the asylum. One day, however, he felt a new attack coming on while he was painting a quarry.
It would be followed by further crises. Despite his diagnosis, Van Gogh received very little treatment as such, merely taking hot and cold baths twice a week. The asylum had special bathrooms for patients. Taking alternating hot and cold baths was a standard treatment for mentally ill people at the time. All the same, he went on to make several portraits of other inmates. Vincent was unable to work for several weeks.
After a while, he cautiously began again. Vincent might have identified with the recently deceased Christ. This new crisis, my dear brother, came upon me in the fields, and when I was in the middle of painting on a windy day.
The return of his illness made Vincent extremely uncertain and sad, and he lost hope that he would ever recover. He felt trapped at the asylum and wanted to leave as soon as possible. Unusually, Van Gogh was able and permitted to work during his final crisis. The little sketches are endless variations of the same theme, in a powerful, but nervous style.
They seem to reflect something of his disquiet. Van Gogh painted this resurrection of Lazarus after a print of a work by Rembrandt. He finished it shortly before leaving the institution for Auvers. Was it the subject that appealed to him? The long-anticipated departure from the asylum might have felt like a fresh start for him as well. Vincent left the institution after a year. He moved to Auvers, a village near Paris, to be close to Theo. Dr Gachet, who lived in Auvers, was asked to take care of him.
He experienced long periods of lucidity and was therefore given permission to paint outdoors, and he took full advantage of it.
During his stay in hospital, he painted many landscapes, along with works like Ward in the Hospital and The Courtyard of the Hospital. He was sometimes allowed to go into town, for instance when his friend Paul Signac came to visit. His illness had made Vincent anxious and insecure. He became convinced that it would be better for him and for others if he continued to live apart from society for a while. All places Existing, accessible Existing, not accessible No longer existing. Work Made here.
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