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Landscape with Ploughman, 1889
Van Gogh's view from his room at the hospital was a wheatfield enclosed by a wall. By painting it repeatedly, both from indoors and out, he created a series through which he tried to capture different moods and the essence of the Provençal seasons. The intensity of this autumnal scene in low sunlight is achieved through the bold articulation of his brushwork and a radically simplified and partially invented background.
Oil on canvas
Private collection