"Vincent Van Gogh." Bird's Nest ", Nuenen, 1885. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.<br />

Van Gogh's studio has accumulated many things: tools, plants, pieces of moss, hats and caps, stuffed birds. His sister, Lys, describes what the room looked like: “In one of the corners was a tree that was found dead, apparently in a thunderstorm, and completely dry. Its branches were pruned and put in a bath with the ground; in the crown of this tree was a whole collection of all sorts of nests, which appeared there as a result of wanderings around the world, which the artist collected and preserved. Even the children from Nuenen could earn ten cents from Van Gogh for each nest they received.<br />

Parts of this collection of thirty different bird nests appeared on five canvases.<br />

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My collection so far consists of a single nest that I found on a balcony, built by unknown people in a bunch of branches brought from Karelia. Therefore, the other three nests had to be invented from fur leggings and tights ...<br />

photo Katerina Consulova<br />

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