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A Wheatfield with Cypresses is any of three similar 1889 oil paintings by Vincent van Gogh, as part of his wheat field series. All were exhibited at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole mental asylum at Saint-Rémy near Arles , France, where Van Gogh was voluntarily a patient from May 1889 to May 1890.
The Wheat Field with Cypresses paintings were made when Van Gogh was able to leave the asylum. Van Gogh had a fondness for cypresses and wheat fields of which he wrote: "Only I have no news to tell you, for the days are all the same, I have no ideas, except to think that a field of wheat or a cypress well worth the trouble of looking at closeup ...
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The wheat field with cypresses paintings were made when van Gogh was able to leave the asylum. Van Gogh had a fondness for cypresses and wheat fields of which he wrote: "Only I have no news to tell you, for the days are all the same, I have no ideas, except to think that a field of wheat or a cypress well worth the trouble of looking at closeup."
[2] [4] Van Gogh could also see an enclosed wheat field, subject of many paintings at Saint-Rémy. [5] As he ventured outside the asylum walls he painted the wheat fields, olive groves and cypress trees of the surrounding countryside, [4] which he saw as "characteristic of Provence". Over the course of the year, he painted about 150 canvases.
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Cypresses: June 1889 Brooklyn Museum: Saint-Rémy F 1525 JH 1747 Cypresses: June 1889 Art Institute of Chicago: Saint-Rémy F 1524 JH 1749 Field with Poppies: June 1889 Private collection Saint-Rémy F 1494 JH 1752 Enclosed Wheat Field with Reaper: June 1889 Kupferstichkabinett Berlin: Saint-Rémy F 1546 JH 1754 Wheat Field with Cypresses: June ...
The painting measures 50.4 cm × 101.3 cm (19.8 in × 39.9 in). It depicts a relatively flat and featureless landscape with fields of green wheat, under a foreboding dark blue sky with a few heavy white clouds. The horizon divides the work almost into two, with shades of green and yellow below and shades of blue and white above.