Corridor in the Asylum, September 1889, Oil color and essence over black chalk on pink laid ('Ingres') paper, 25 5/8 x 19 5/16in. (65. 1 x 49. 1cm), Drawings, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853?1890 Auvers-sur-Oise), This haunting view of a sharply receding corridor is the artist's most powerful depiction of the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in St. Remy, where he spent twelve months near the end of his life and where he painted oils of olive groves, cypresses, roses, and irises ('Women Picking Olives')