Vincent van Gogh - Peasant Woman Digging 1885
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Peasant Woman Digging 1885
42x32cm oil/panel
Birmingham, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham
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From Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham:
In such works he uses a palette of drab earth colours far removed from
the vibrant contrasting pigments of his later radical paintings. He wrote to his brother in July 1885 about a ‘woman … seen from the front, her head almost
on the ground, digging carrots’. ‘I have been watching those peasant figures for more than a year and a half’, he added, ‘just to catch their character’.
The artist was convinced that he got ‘better results by painting them in their roughness than by giving them a conventional charm’.