Wheat Field With Cypresses 1889

Wheat field with cypresses is a post impressionist oil on canvas painting created by vincent van gogh in 1889.

Wheat field with cypresses 1889. The painting depicts golden fields of ripe wheat a dark fastigiate provençal cypress towering like a. The works were inspired by the view from the window at the asylum towards the alpilles mountains. A wheatfield with cypresses is any of three similar 1889 oil paintings by vincent van gogh as part of his wheat field series. Van gogh painted these cypresses three times.

It is build up in great bands that traverse the entire space. The tall dark cypress trees at one side offer a powerful contrast to the prevailing horizontals which they resemble in form. A first version which he described as a study was painted on site in late june 1889. Tate modern london uk.

The image is in the public domain and tagged trees. Wheatfield with cypresses 1889 giclee print by vincent van gogh. Vincent van gogh dutch. 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.

Van gogh painted this wheat field by some referred to as a cornfield with cypresses when he was in a mental asylum in saint remy in the south of france. Wheat field with cypresses. Van gogh painted several versions of a wheatfield with cypressesduring the summer of 1889 while he was a patient in the psychiatric hospital of saint paul de mausole in the village of st rémy in the south of france. Wheat field with cypresses at the haude galline near eygalieres was created in 1889 by vincent van gogh in post impressionism style.

73 cm 93 4 cm. Cypresses gained ground in van gogh s work by late june 1889 when he resolved to devote one of his first series in saint rémy to the towering trees. Wheat field with cypresses. This movement is emphasized by the impasto technique used for this painting in which the paint is applied in thick layers.