The Painter on his way to work

Artworks based on Vincent Van Gogh’s Painter on the Road to Tarascon, also known as Painter on His Way to Work, 1888. Presumed destroyed.

‘…Tarascon is down in the black books of the world of fur and feather. The very birds of passage have ticked it off on their guide-books, and when the wild ducks, coming down towards the Camargue in long triangles, spy the town steeples from afar, the outermost flyers squawk out loudly:

“Look out! there’s Tarascon! give Tarascon the go-by, duckies!”

And the flocks take a swerve.’

From Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet 1840-1897, and one of VvG’s favourite books.