Sheaves of Wheat

Vincent van Gogh

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Work Overview

Sheaves of Wheat
Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1890; Saint-rémy-de-provence, France *
Style: Post-Impressionism
Genre: landscape
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 101 x 50.5 cm
Location: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, US


Van Gogh brings the spectator directly into Sheaves of Wheat by filling the picture plane with eight sheaves of wheat, as if seeing it from a worker's perspective. The sheaves, bathed in yellow light, appear to be recently cut. For contrast, Van Gogh uses the complementary, vivid lavender for shadows and earth in the nearby field.