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van Gogh postcard

beautiful offset-printed
on 320 grs carton

Postman Roulin

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, 1888, oil on canvas, 64 cm x 55 cm.
Joseph Roulin, a postal employee, was a friend of van Gogh’s when the artist lived in Arles, a town in the South of France, in 1888–89. Van Gogh depicted Roulin in the uniform he always wore proudly, setting him against an imaginative backdrop of swirling flowers. The artist’s use of bold colors and flat patterns would have resonated with Austrian artists who were part of the Vienna Secession movement that formed a decade later.

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