Vincent van Gogh - Field with Stacks of Wheat 1890
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Field with Stacks of Wheat 1890
50x101cm oil/canvas
Dallas Museum of Art
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From Dallas Museum of Art:
On 17 June 1890, Vincent van Gogh received a large shipment of canvases from his brother Théo. He had been in the small town of Auvers-sur-Oise since 20 May, remaining under
the care of the homeopathic physician, Dr. Paul Gachet. Although plagued with physical and psychological problems, van Gogh continued to produce works at a fantastic rate.
From the time that the shipment of canvases arrived until his suicide at the end of July, van Gogh painted thirteen large canvases of a double-square format. These works are
unique in his career for their format and for the fact that they seem to be a series. All but one of the double-square canvases were painted with horizontal landscapes
(the thirteenth is a vertical portrait of Mlle. Gachet at the piano, Kunstmuseum, Basel).
From the evidence of its subject, the Reves "Sheaves of Wheat" is among the latest of this group. The wheat harvest in the region of Vexin, in which van Gogh painted,
occurs from mid- to late July, and earlier that summer van Gogh had painted a field of ripe wheat on the verge of harvest, in his famous "Crows over the Wheat Field"
(Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam). The Reves painting seems to have been made as part of a sequence of canvases detailing the wheat harvest, beginning with
"Wheat Field under Cloudy Sky" (Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh), progressing to "Crows over the Wheat Field" and "Sheaves of Wheat," and concluding with "Field with Haystacks"
(private collection).