Autumn Landscape

When he paints trees with yellow leaves in an autumn landscape, it doesn’t matter if his yellow is not the same as the yellow of the leaves. Insight What it comes down to is ‘my sense of the infinite variety of tones in the same family’. He visualizes this insight in this Autumn landscape; a symphony in orange-brown of a few trees behind the garden of his parental home in Nuenen. Delighted, he writes to Theo: ‘The laws of colour are inexpressibly splendid precisely because they are not coincidences’.