Featured Van Gogh watermill has come home.

Such a coincidence, I posted a photo of one of our local medieval watermills a little over a week ago in this thread:
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/is-this-considered-delft-delftware.22173/#post-298774
And now our provincial museum, Noordbrabants Museum, has bought van Gogh's painting of it in an auction at Sotheby's:

 

NICE!!!

 

As the local papers and stations keep saying, it is one of the few bright painting he painted during his Nuenen period.
Nuenen is down the road from where we live, literally, and just before you get there, is the watermill. It is one of those idyllic drives that makes me fall in love with this region everytime.

 

Makes me almost forgive him for those ^*#(@ sunflowers!

 

!!!

 

Sorry if I offended, KOT, but a) I dislike yellow, 2) I dislike orange, 3) I dislike brown, 4) 'n I really despise sunflowers.

Besides which, my favorite artists are Reynolds (Sir Joshua), Romney, Constable, etc.

 

Didn't
Just surprised.

 

That's a lot of colors to dislike....u must have trouble with nature !

 

CONGRATS! Nice that it has come home.

 

(Komokwa) Have no problem with nature. I live on the upper east coast; the sky is blue, the grass is green, and nothing so lovely has ever been seen!

I AM happy the painting came home, however.

 

the sky is blue, the grass is green

not for very long....I hope you like White !!!

 

Love it! My favorite color!

 

(Can't you just see me, out in New Mexico desert, wilted under the cacti....sere...desiccated...shriveled...gasping my last...)

 

congra!,,,recently you had also those two stolen Van Gogh paintings recovered from the Camorra, one of them depicts a church scene in Nuenen...
TTA

 

My wife just returned from visiting the netherlands with her siblings and after hearing of her visit and seeing all of the photos, I promised to go with her in a couple of years.

I love the painting!

 

The view on the museum site is so dark it could be taken as moon lit. It's very calm for a van Gogh. Painted in 1884, when he was 31. He died 6 years later. This must have been right on the cusp of his transformation.

 

Probably before the syphilis symptoms set in.

 

Yes that was really something to celebrate. I started this thread at the time:
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/celebration-time-van-gogh-paintings-back-home.16101/#post-223386

 

I will bet it is nice an peaceful there. I love sitting and watching water flow. Thanks for sharing it.