Pine trees at sunset - Vincent van Gogh

In the painting it is clear that these light green stripes invigorate the sky. Broken tones The green is a colour that ‘appears as matt, dirty white on the palette’. It reminds Van Gogh of his illness. ‘Some of my paintings, when I compare them to others, certainly do bear the trace that it’s a sick man who paints them, and I can assure you that I don’t do it deliberately. But despite myself, my calculations end up at broken tones’.