Van Gogh-Windmills on Montmartre Poster

Vincent van Gogh painted *Windmills on Montmartre* in 1886, shortly after he had moved to Paris. For Van Gogh, who lived on the slopes of Montmartre with his brother Theo, the windmills in this area were not merely part of the Parisian landscape; they also reminded him of his past in the Netherlands. The windmills depicted in the painting were also connected to the nearby famous Moulin de la Galette entertainment venue, and Van Gogh painted them repeatedly from different angles. While the work’s dark, somewhat melancholic atmosphere evokes his years in the Netherlands, the lighter colors appearing in the sky and garden bear the first signs of the evolving palette he was developing in Paris.