Farmhouse in ProvencePiece count: 210 Material: Baltic Birch, 1 4" Description Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888, the landscape covered with snow. But it was sun that he sought in Provencea brilliant light that would wash out detail and simplify forms, reducing the world around him to the kinds of flat patterns he admired in Japanese woodblock prints. Arles, he said, was "the Japan of the South." Van Gogh's time in Arles was amazingly productive. In about 15