Ears of Wheat
Currently on view
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Auvers-sur-Oise, June 1890
oil on canvas, 64 cm x 48 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
For this painting, Van Gogh must have stood in the middle of a wheatfield. He 'zoomed in' on the plants with their waving leaves and heavy stalks. The green sea of wheat is interrupted by a blue cornflower in the upper left and the pink bindweed in the lower right.
Van Gogh described this decorative painting to his friend, the artist Paul Gauguin, as follows: 'nothing more than ears of wheat, green-blue stalks, long, ribbon-like leaves, under a sheen of green and pink; ears of wheat, yellowing slightly, with an edge made pale pink by the dusty manner of flowering.' The colours were supposed to evoke 'the soft rustle of the ears of grain swaying back and forth in the wind.'
- F-number
- F0767
- JH-number
- JH2034
- Object number
- s0088V1962
- Dimensions
- 64 cm x 48 cm, 86 cm x 69 cm
- Provenance
- With his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, after mid June 1890; after Theo’s death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; 1926 given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Mesdag Museum, The Hague; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 16 December 1930; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, on 10 July 1962 to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam; agreement concluded on 21 July 1962 between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State; given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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