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Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat is an 1890 oil on canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh went on to paint several versions of this painting. [1] The painting has changed hands several times. In 1997, Stephen Wynn paid $47.5 million for the painting. [2]
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Images of peasant girls spinning wool were a popular subject and appeared frequently in the works of nineteenth century artists, to whom the theme offered opportunities to romanticize rural life, document regional costume, as well as conjure up the iconography of Clotho and the Fates or Moirai of classical mythology, who are primeval goddesses that spin, apportion and eventually cut the thread ...
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The painting is made with somber colors, contrasted against the woven red fabric on the loom. [43] The Bobbin Winder (F175) wound yarn onto a bobbin for weaving. In this painting, made in the winter of 1883-1884, Van Gogh uses touches of light grey to depict the light falling on the dark room and instrument. [44]