Auvers-sur-Oise

Auvers-sur-Oise
Auvers-sur-Oise
Location within Île-de-France region  Auvers-sur-Oise
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-d'Oise
Arrondissement	Pontoise
Canton	La Vallée-du-Sausseron
Intercommunality	Vallée de l’Oise et des Impressionnistes
Mayor	Jean-Pierre Béquet (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	21–111 m (69–364 ft)
Land area1	12.69 km2 (4.90 sq mi)
Population2	6,879  (2008)
- Density	542 /km2 (1,400 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	95039/ 95430
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Auvers-sur-Oise (French pronunciation: ​[o.vɛʁ.syʁ.waz]) is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 27.2 km (16.9 mi) from the centre of Paris. It is associated with several famous artists, the most prominent being Vincent van Gogh.

History

During the 19th century, a number of painters lived and worked in Auvers-sur-Oise, including Paul Cézanne, Charles-François Daubigny, Camille Pissarro, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and, of course, Vincent van Gogh. Daubigny's house is now a museum where one can see paintings by the artist, his family and friends, such as Honoré Daumier, and rooms decorated in period style.

If you walk along the river from Auvers toward Pontoise, you can see a number of views which figured in the paintings of Pissarro.

During the 20th century, artists continued to frequent Auvers, for example Henri Rousseau (Douanier Rousseau) and Otto Freundlich.

On 1 August 1948, 17% of the territory of Auvers-sur-Oise was detached and became the commune of Butry-sur-Oise.

Population

{{Demography Yet, we see no staircase, only windows and rooves ;=}. | 1793=1754 | 1800=1635 | 1806=1708 | 1821=1705 | 1831=1806 | 1836=1522 | 1841=1530 | 1846=1547 | 1851=1553 | 1856=1574 }}

Year	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896	1901	1906
Population	1648	1635	1720	1638	1713	1936	2063	2255	2402	2544

Year	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954	1962	1968	1975
Population	2681	2961	3132	3240	3163	3345	3172	3772	5124	5808

Year	1982	1990	1999	2008
Population	5722	6129	6820	6879

Van Gogh

Main article: Vincent van Gogh

Dr. Paul Gachet lived in Auvers-sur-Oise. He was acquainted with the avant-garde artists of the time. Through this connection, Vincent van Gogh moved to Auvers to be treated by him, though he considered the doctor to be in a worse state than himself. Gachet befriended Van Gogh and was the subject of two portraits, one of which, Portrait of Dr. Gachet, was sold at auction for over $80m (£48m) in 1990.

Van Gogh committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest. The room on the upper floor of the Auberge Ravoux where he died has been preserved, although no furniture remains. Auvers-sur-Oise is the final resting place of both Vincent and his brother Theo van Gogh, who died six months later.

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  Church of Auvers-sur-Oise by Vincent van Gogh

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  Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh

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  Wheat Field with Crows, one of Van Gogh's last paintings

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  Daubigny's Garden, possibly Van Gogh's final painting

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  L’Auberge Ravoux, in Auvers-sur-Oise, where Vincent Van Gogh spent his final months and where he died. It is now a restaurant.

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  View from the staircase leading up to Van Gogh's room in L'Auberge Ravoux

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  Vincent and Theo van Gogh's graves in Auvers-sur-Oise.

In Vincent Van Gogh's birth place Zundert (NL), the street next to the small protestant church where his father preached, has been renamed "Auvers-sur-oise-straat" (straat(NL)=street(EN)=rue(FR)).

Transport

Auvers-sur-Oise is served by two stations on the Transilien Paris – Nord suburban rail line: Chaponval and Auvers-sur-Oise.

See also

• Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

References

• INSEE
• Association of Mayors of the Val d’Oise (French)

External links

• Official website (French)
• The Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh
• Interactive visit of Auvers