[1][2] Likely Van Gogh's final painting, it is an example of the double-square canvases that he employed in his last landscapes.

[3] Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, after he left an asylum at Saint-Rémy in May 1890.

In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh said that he wanted to express something of life's struggle in these drawings.

[Works 1] On April 14, 1991 Tree Roots was stolen from the Van Gogh museum along with 19 other paintings.

[6] In 2020, Wouter Van der Veen, scientific director of Institut Van Gogh determined the probable location where the painting was made, based on an historical postcard, to be on the rue Daubigny in Auvers-sur-Oise.