Cicadas in the Olive Groves by Dallas Museum of Art published on 2021-07-13T15:26:09Z Vincent van Gogh was charmed by the sound of cicadas he heard singing in the olive groves while he stayed in the psychiatric asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence as a self-admitted patient. He wrote to his brother Theo, "I've tried to express the time of day when one sees the green beetles and the cicadas flying in the heat.” Listen to the sound of the cicadas filling the olive groves in present-day Saint-Rémy.
