Field of Poppies

The area surrounding Auvers afforded Van Gogh plenty of scenery for inspiration, and during his last months the artist painted numerous scenes of wheat fields and wide-open, windy countrysides. Originally created in 1889, this work presents a turbulent image that is unsettling and unconvincing; the painting was done in the weeks prior to him taking his own life, and at a time when his world was falling in.