{"product_id":"vincent_van_gogh__the_mulberry_tree","title":"The Mulberry Tree – Vincent van Gogh, 1889","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Mulberry Tree by Vincent van Gogh, 1889\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFramed Canvas Art\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the centre of the canvas stands \u003cstrong\u003ea solitary mulberry tree in full autumn gold\u003c\/strong\u003e, its canopy surging outward in writhing, tightly coiled brushstrokes of deep amber, ochre, and burnt orange against a turbulent cobalt and cerulean sky. The branches twist with unmistakable energy, each limb rendered in dark sinuous curves that push against the swirling foliage above and the pale cream and beige ground below. Van Gogh positions the trunk slightly left of centre, anchoring a composition that radiates centrifugal force: the leaves spiral outward from every terminal branch, refusing stillness. A low stone wall and muted green shrubbery occupy the midground, and the ground plane is worked in short directional strokes of buff, straw, and grey that echo the sky's movement. \u003cstrong\u003eThe entire surface vibrates\u003c\/strong\u003e, not through chaos but through a disciplined accumulation of loaded, purposeful marks, each one aligned to the form it describes. This is one of the most kinetically charged single-tree studies in the artist's entire output.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVan Gogh painted \u003cstrong\u003eThe Mulberry Tree\u003c\/strong\u003e in October 1889 during his voluntary confinement at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. He had committed himself there in May of that year following the breakdown that ended his time in Arles, and the asylum's garden and surrounding grounds became his primary subject through those months. The mulberry tree he depicted stood in the courtyard of the institution; he wrote to his brother Theo describing it as \"magnificent\" against the blue sky and noting that he worked on the canvas in a single session of intense concentration. The work belongs to a remarkable cluster of tree studies from Saint-Rémy, including the series of olive groves and the famous cypresses, in which Van Gogh treated the individual tree as a vehicle for expressing forces far larger than botany. \u003cem\u003ePost-Impressionism\u003c\/em\u003e is the movement that accommodates this ambition: inherited \u003cem\u003eImpressionist\u003c\/em\u003e colour and plein-air directness are pushed toward deliberate expressive distortion and structural invention. The Mulberry Tree entered the collection of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, where it remains one of the institution's most visited works. When it was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984 as part of a landmark Van Gogh retrospective, critics singled out its combination of documentary precision and psychological intensity as exemplary of the artist's late achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur archival \u003cem\u003egiclee\u003c\/em\u003e process on museum-grade cotton canvas preserves the visual information that mass-produced prints compress away: the subtle tonal gradations from the \u003cstrong\u003edeep prussian-blue sky at upper left\u003c\/strong\u003e to the warmer cerulean passages behind the canopy, the precise temperature shift between the cool grey-white ground and the warm ochre leaf masses, and the layered texture of Van Gogh's characteristically loaded impasto, in which individual strokes of amber sit proud of darker underpainted curves in a way that flat lithography cannot render. Our source file is drawn from high-resolution museum scans, digitally restored to recover the true saturation of the cadmium-based oranges and the depth of the dark branch contours, both of which degrade significantly in poster-quality offset reproduction. The ornate composite frame, available in your choice of finish, completes the presentation without competing with a canvas whose chromatic intensity is entirely its own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CanvasClassics","offers":[{"title":"Small (21 x 19) \/ Gold","offer_id":49399651369195,"sku":"243611","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small (21 x 19) \/ Silver","offer_id":49399651401963,"sku":"243612","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small (21 x 19) \/ Dark Bronze","offer_id":49399651434731,"sku":"243613","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium (31 x 27) \/ Gold","offer_id":49399651467499,"sku":"243621","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium (31 x 27) \/ Silver","offer_id":49399651500267,"sku":"243622","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium (31 x 27) \/ Dark Bronze","offer_id":49399651533035,"sku":"243623","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large (36 x 31) \/ Gold","offer_id":49399651565803,"sku":"243631","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large (36 x 31) \/ Silver","offer_id":49399651598571,"sku":"243632","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large (36 x 31) \/ Dark Bronze","offer_id":49399651631339,"sku":"243633","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate (46 x 40) \/ Gold","offer_id":49399651664107,"sku":"243641","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate (46 x 40) \/ Silver","offer_id":49399651696875,"sku":"243642","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate (46 x 40) \/ Dark Bronze","offer_id":49399651729643,"sku":"243643","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8606\/6923\/files\/vincent_van_gogh__the_mulberry_tree__small__gold.jpg?v=1789253559","url":"https:\/\/canvasclassics.shop\/products\/vincent_van_gogh__the_mulberry_tree","provider":"Canvas Classics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}