Barges loaded with sand rest on brilliant turquoise canal water

Two sand barges are moored at a canal quay, a red-white-and-blue French flag hanging from a rigging pole at centre. A man pushes a wheelbarrow on one barge while another figure in a straw hat wheels a barrow on the second; a small rowboat with a figure and long oar sits behind. The quay banks are built from wide, thick yellow strokes beside brilliant turquoise-green water.

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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