Wheatfield with Crows, 1890, 50.5 x 103 cm. Vincent van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

 Wheatfield with Crows, 1890, 50.5 x 103 cm. Vincent van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Probable Vincent's last painting before he took his own life, indeed the painting is symbolic of death. You can see the blood red path coming to an end, it was in a wheat field the Vincent shot himself, he takes 2 days to die. Vincent's brother Theo, died six month later, they are buried side by side. 

Wheat Field With a Reaper" 1889  Vincent van GoghIn "Wheat Field With a Reaper" (1889), van Gogh had pictured death "on the point of smiling."

"I see in this reaper – a vague figure toiling away for all he's worth in the midst of the heat to finish his task – I see in him the image of death, in the sense that humanity might be the wheat that he is reaping," he wrote in September 1889. ". . . But there is no sadness in this death, this one takes place in broad daylight with a sun flooding everything with a light of pure gold . . .

"It's all yellow, except for a line of purple hills. A pale and golden yellow. I find it odd that I saw it like that through the iron bars of a cell."

In the end, van Gogh welcomed dying. The black and jagged birds in "Wheat Field With Crows," his final painting, predict what soon would come.

 

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