New Leaf

HEY MAY NOT be quite as famous as his sunflowers or self-portraits, but Vincent Van Gogh’s olive tree paintings still represent an important entry in his sprawling oeuvre of more than 2,000 works. The series was completed during the penultimate year of the Dutch post-impressionist’s life, in 1889. Van Gogh was staying at a psychiatric hospital in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, having admitted himself after suffering numerous breakdowns in nearby Arles. He was