Wheatfield with Sheaves and Rising Moon
Wheatfield with Sheaves and Rising Moon
"Anyway, in the meantime I can do nothing but fiddle with my paintings a little. I have one on the go of a moonrise over the same field as the croquis in the Gauguin letter, but in which stacks replace the wheat. It’s dull ochre-yellow and violet." To Theo. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 14 or Monday, 15 July 1889
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13th of July 1889Detailed Image Links
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The related image, Wheatfields behind St Paul’s Hospital was created around a week and a half before this work of the same view but with evening coming on.
“Anyway, in the meantime I can do nothing but fiddle with my paintings a little. I have one on the go of a moonrise over the same field as the croquis in the Gauguin letter, but in which stacks replace the wheat. It’s dull ochre-yellow and violet.”
To Theo. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 14 or Monday, 15 July 1889
Painting, Oil on Canvas – 72 x 92 cm Size 30 Figure
Saint-Rémy, France: July 13, 1889
Kröller-Müller Museum
Otterlo, The Netherlands, Europe
F: 735, JH: 1761
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