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Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy

Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy

Year
1887
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
50.5 × 60 cm (19 7/8 × 23 5/8 in.); Framed: 71.2 × 78.5 × 4.8 cm (28 × 30 7/8 × 1 7/8 in.)

This painting is set on the river Seine at the Clichy Bridge near Asnières, a suburb north of Paris where Van Gogh painted on several occasions with his friend and fellow artist Paul Signac. Van Gogh was inspired by a technique Signac innovated called divisionism, in which, using science-based color theory, he painted distinct strokes of different colors of paint next to each other to make each color more luminous.

Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain.

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