Poppy field

ID: #557 | TOP 100 | Postimpressionism | Landscapes

Date: 1890
Medium: oil on canvas

"Auvers is very beautiful, " Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in Paris. Over the course of nine weeks, from the end of May to July 1890, Van Gogh produced some 106 finished works there. Van Gogh's Poppy Field dates from this period.

His composition and use of color are very reminiscent of Claude Monet 1881 paintings of the same subject, but Van Gogh has raised the horizon so that the field of flowers takes up more of the painting's surface.

Gogh painted picture Poppy field in 1890. Prevailing color of this fine art print is red and its shape is landscape. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890). Dutch painter belonging to Post-Impressionism. His paintings (some 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches) are among the most famous in the world and are sold for exorbitant sums (except for those in our shop). Parisian Impressionists He lived in Paris from 1886 and was influenced by the use of bright colours - most of his works were painted during this period. In his paintings, Gogh uses contrasting colours (often blue and orange - he said that I want to use colours other contrasts to each of them shone even more to contrast a man and a woman). He was known for his excesses and amputated an ear after the break-up of his friendship with Gauguin. There is a lot of speculation about this incident (he possibly suffered from heavy metal poisoning from paint that had caused mental problems). In 1890, unfortunately he committed suicide.