Racines de Van Gogh - Vangoghroots — Attraction in Pontoise

I encountered the website of 'Roots of Van Gogh' on Google when I was doing reserach about Auvers-sur-Oise. Not sure whether the tour is in French or English, I did not book the tour online in advance. After I had arrived in person at around 16:20, there was only one tour left. Knowing that English tour is available, I decided to join the tour and gave up the visit to Chateau d'Auvers. This was a very wise decision.

This is the place where van Gogh worked on his very last painting. No one really know this is the place until during the covid, when someone went through his old postcards and discovered the similarity between the tree roots and Van Gogh's painting.

The tour is about 30-minute long. Our guide Jean is incredible. He explained everything with passion. Up on a small hill, we can see the wheatfield where Van Gogh spent his last days. In his foot steps I can imagine what his life was like. It's a really amazing tour.

The only thing I dislike is the huge signage that block the view of the tree roots. Hope the authority can move it somewhere else. It's very...

It is extraordinary and very exciting that even 130 years after Vincent's death, more places associated with him and his work are being discovered. The Serlingers, who own the property with the tree roots Vincent painted for his very last work, are lovely people who take their custodianship of the site and its significance to Vincent's life very seriously. They have worked hard over the course of several years to stabilize the area, have enthusiastically worked in cooperation with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam to research and find out everything there is to know about it, and are doing all they can to make it, and the land surrounding it, accessible to the public in a meaningful way. We were privileged to spend an afternoon with them in April, and it was the highlight of our visit to Auvers-our-Oise (which is really saying something). The survival and discovery of the roots themselves is extraordinary, but the fact that the site is cared for with such passion and enthusiasm for Vincent's legacy is a fine and special thing. We hope to visit again as...

Today I visited the Van Gogh Roots in Auvers sur Oise. I was very lucky, I had a private tour by Jean-François Serlinger. He is a very inspiring person, and we could share our idea’s about Vincent. He showed me how Vincent made a composition in this painting vorm trees/roots who are not next to eachother. In a brilliant way a painted it again before my eyes. It was as if I was looping to Vincent. Mr. Serlinger knows a lot about Vincent and his live in Auvers. Together with his wife Helene they are the guardians of the heritage of Vincent. We went Up the Hill and I admired the wheatfields (there were no craws today). Afterwards I visited Auberge Ravoux, where Vincent spent the last 70 days of his life. And to end my trip I again went to the graves of Vincent and Theo. i became silent, about this brothership. Jean-François and Helene thank you. Next year I Will...