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Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night / Olive Trees, 1889, MoMA / Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Olive Trees are the daylight complement to the nocturnal Starry Night. In fact, Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo: “I did a landscape with olive trees and also a new study of a starry sky”. In these two paintings, Van Gogh went beyond what he called “the photographic and silly perfection of some painters”.