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A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, 1889

With swirling and rippling strokes of paint, Van Gogh captures the summer mistral wind sweeping through a landscape at the foot of the Alpilles mountains. He had first made an outdoor painting of this view in late June 1889. But in this studio version of September, he stylised the sky to create a decorative pattern that finds echoes in the mountains, cypresses and vegetation below.

Oil on canvas

The National Gallery, London. Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1923