During his years in Nuenen in the Netherlands, Vincent van Gogh made a well-known series of drawings and paintings of pollard willows, the stubby, gnarled trees that result from repeated pruning of their upper branches. "Têtards (Pollards)" reflects his fascination with these trees, which he found expressive and almost human in their twisted, weathered forms, rendered in the dark, tonal palette of his early Dutch period before he moved to Paris and adopted a brighter Impressionist-influenced color scheme. The pollard willow studies are considered an important step in the development of his expressive, personal style.
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