Every picture tells a story. Vincent van Gogh, Trees in the Garden of Saint -Paul Hospital 1889. After his discharge from the hospital in Arles, Van Gogh is unable to organize his life or set up a new studio. He attributes his breakdown to excessive drink and perhaps tobacco, although he gives up neither. Fearful of a relapse, in May 1889 he voluntarily admits himself to the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy, 15 miles from Arles: “I wish to remain shut up as much for my own peace of mind as for other people’s.” The admitting physician, Dr. Théophile Peyron, notes that Van Gogh suffers from “acute mania with hallucinations of sight and hearing.”
