Why it matters
A flat field of green wheat stretches beneath a dark, foreboding sky. Weeks before his death, Van Gogh described such canvases as 'immense stretches of wheatfields under turbulent skies', expressing 'sadness, extreme loneliness'.
Did you know?
- It was painted in early July 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise.
- It uses an unusual elongated double-square format.
- It has been on loan to the Van Gogh Museum since 1973.
Based on the Wikipedia article Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds (CC BY-SA 4.0).
