A pensive woman rests her cheek on her hand beside two books

A dark-haired woman sits at a round green table, chin resting on her hand, elbow propped near two books, one open with a mint-green cover, one closed in red-orange. She wears a black dress with dark blue sleeves and a pale green fichu at the neckline, her hair pulled back and tied with a dark blue bow. The background is a flat, unbroken mustard yellow. Van Gogh painted several versions of Marie Ginoux, the Arles café owner known as L'Arlésienne.

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) painted for barely ten years and produced some 2,100 works, most of them in the last two. After early dark canvases of Dutch peasant life he moved to Paris in 1886, absorbed Impressionism and Japanese prints, and in Arles and Saint-Rémy arrived at the thick, directional brushwork and saturated colour that carry his sunflowers, cypresses and night skies. He sold almost nothing in his lifetime. His paintings are held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Musée d'Orsay and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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