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First painting (F617), late June 1889, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands [1] Reaper (French: faucheur, lit. 'reaper'), Wheat Field with Reaper, or Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun is the title given to each of a series of three oil-on-canvas paintings by Vincent van Gogh of a man reaping a wheat field under a bright early-morning sun.
In early July Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo of a work he began in June, Wheat Field with Cypresses: "I have a canvas of cypresses with some ears of wheat, some poppies, a blue sky like a piece of Scotch plaid; the former painted with a thick impasto . . . and the wheat field in the sun, which represents the extreme heat, very thick too ...
Van Gogh sent the painting to his brother Theo in January 1890, along with a letter which described it as "Ploughed Field, with background of mountains", and again suggested that this violet-toned work could be a pendant with his yellow-dominated painting of The Reaper. [3] Van Gogh had made a Size 30 version of The Reaper (also known as Wheat ...
The Van Gogh Museum's Wheatfield with Crows was made in July 1890, in the last weeks of Van Gogh's life, many have claimed it was his last work. Others have claimed Tree Roots was his last painting. Wheatfield with Crows , made on an elongated canvas, depicts a dramatic cloudy sky filled with crows over a wheat field.
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Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties, and most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. In 2013, Sunset at Montmajour became the first full-sized Van Gogh painting to be newly confirmed since 1928 ...
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The Van Gogh Museum's Wheatfield with Crows was painted in July 1890, in the last weeks of van Gogh's life. Many have claimed it as his last painting, while it is likely that Tree Roots was his final painting. Wheat Field with Crows, made on a double-square canvas, depicts a dramatic, cloudy sky filled with crows over a wheat field. [5]