wrote of the selection and placement of colors "which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple, which completes each other like man and woman." Van Gogh's imagination created the figures in the paintings. In one, a couple of a thin man with an umbrella is paired with a large woman, much like van Gogh's image of a woman he might settle down with. On the lane is also a red-dressed woman. The other painting holds a couple who walk along the lane between stone sarcophagi, a yellow sunset at their backs. Van Gogh's other Les Alyscamps paintings Van Gogh made another pair of paintings at Les Alyscamps. Gauguin's paintings For his painting of Les Alyscamps, painted on the same day as van Gogh's, Gauguin chose a different vantage point, and excluded any reference to ancient sarcophagi. References Bibliography Naifeh, Steven; Smith, Gregory White. Van Gogh: The Life. Profile Books, 2011. External links Paintings of Arles by Vincent van Gogh 1888 paintings Paintings by Vincent van Gogh Collections of the Kröller-Müller Museum it:Les Alyscamps pl:Les Alyscamps