Painter On The Road To Tarascon Was Burned Before It Could Be Sold
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Another classic painting by Van Gogh, the Painter on the Road to Tarascon was burned and destroyed by the Nazis before it could be sold. Considered incredibly valuable at the time, it is one of the most famous lost works of art the Nazis took.
The reason the painting is still valued today is that it’s a self-portrait of Van Gogh himself. He portrays himself as a lonely traveler lost in the world. Describing the painting before he died, Van Gogh said, ” Real painters do not paint things as they are…They paint them as they themselves feel them to be.” Coming up, not even saints were off-limits to the Nazi regime.
