Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun Postcard — Vincent van Gogh | Zolota Ptakha

One of the olive grove canvases Van Gogh painted around Saint-Rémy in late 1889, written about in his letters as a deliberate counterpart to his cypress series. The yellow sky and disk of the sun stand as much for an idea — heat as a kind of fact — as for a particular afternoon. The postcard carries that compressed light to a desk or a mailbox.