Post-Impressionism · 1889
Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890
National Gallery · London
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Painted in 1889 at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum, A Wheatfield, with Cypresses now hangs at the National Gallery in London — the most vibrant of several versions Van Gogh made. Wheat bends, clouds churn, a cypress flames upward. And yet the whole canvas feels strangely at peace.
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