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The Wheatfield behind Saint Paul's Hospital with a Reaper
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Museum Folkwang
Essen, Germany
“"I see in this reaper an undefined figure struggling in the intense heat, like the devil, to finish his work... I see the image of death in it," Van Gogh wrote to Theo of the wheatfield glimpsed from his asylum window.”
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
59.5 × 72.5 cm (23.4 × 28.5 in)
Painted at
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
Current location
Museum Folkwang, Essen
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