Wheat Field Behind Saint Paul Hospital With A Reaper

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Wheat Field Behind Saint Paul Hospital With A Reaper

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Eric Glaser

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Painting - Oil On Canvas

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"Wheat Field Behind Saint Paul Hospital with a Reaper"

Artist: Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Title: Wheat Field Behind Saint Paul Hospital with a Reaper

La moisson (The Wheatfield behind Saint Paul's Hospital with a Reaper)

Date: September 1889

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 59.5 cm (23.4 in); Width: 72.5 cm (28.5 in)

Collection: Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Place of Creation: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Painting History: Erworben 1902 für das Museum Folkwang, Hagen, seit 1922 Essen

Through the window of his room in the Saint-Remy mental hospital, van Gogh looked out on a field. He painted and drew this motif, which lay just beyond the garden wall, several times. In a letter to his friend, Émile Bernard, he wrote that he had taken up the »devil of a question of yellow« in the study. He intended to paint it in pure sulfur yellow.

Van Gogh explained the metaphor, obviously chosen with care, to his brother Theo; »I see in this reaper – an undefined figure, struggling in the intense heat like the devil to finish his work – I see him as an image of death in the sense that the humans are the corn that is being cut down. So it is, if you will, the opposite of the sowing that I tried earlier. But this death is not sad, it takes place in bright light with a sun that covers everything with a light like pure gold.«

Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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