Wheat Field with Crows
In 1890 Van Gogh wrote he had made three paintings in Auvers of large fields of wheat under troubled skies and Wheat Field with Crows, an oil on canvas, may have been one.
Wheat Field with Crows is mistakenly considered by many to be Van Gogh's last painting, yet he probably painted at least two or three other paintings after this one. The mistake has been perpetuated by the movie "Lust for Life" which depicts Van Gogh as painting this immediately before his suicide. The painting may represent a confusion in Van Gogh's decision-making with its three separating paths and the hovering of the crows against a dark, forbidding sky.
External link
- "Wheat Field with Crows – a history." Van Gogh Gallery.com. Accessed on March 30, 2005.
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