August 2025 – The latest NFTs posted on OpenSea.io, as research results from study sketches, are subjects related to Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Yellow House/The Street, which is currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston until 7 September 2025, in the exhibition Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits, and comes from the collection of the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam. In this painting, two animals lie in the road in front of the Yellow House in Arles, which Vincent van Gogh must have painted later, as he did with the rope in Le Berceuse, for example. The pig and the snake are animals that Van Gogh and Gauguin often used symbolically, as a hidden language, in their paintings and drawings to communicate with each other (and other painters who were aware of their impact accident). Gauguin painted the snake and wrote about it in his notebook. Van Gogh drew and painted the pig. Gauguin did the same several times. This symbolic meaning did not come out of nowhere. Both artists had heard from Fernand Cormon in Paris that anyone who cannot draw a straight line paints like a pig. Gauguin had previously used this teasing remark in his painting Vincent van Gogh Painting Sunflowers. The NFTs are accompanied by a comprehensive PDF with sources and facts that substantiate this hidden truth, as their code and painting language.
Other painters who belonged to Paul Gauguin’s group – such as the group in Pont-Aven who painted in the Symbolist style – were apparently aware of what had happened, but they too remained tight-lipped, as Gauguin wrote. For example, the Amsterdam painter Meijer de Haan painted the ear incident as a mural in the dining room of Marie Henry’s inn La Buvette de la Plage in Le Pouldu. This work is also accompanied by a detailed description, which is included as a PDF file with the NFT. This collage provides many insights into the works of Paul Gauguin and his sword, which remained hidden, was removed immediately after the incident, but which he continued to paint, even in his last portrait, where his sword can be seen, unjustly referred to as a pin in other publications.
