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Cornharvest Provence

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, 1888, oil on canvas, 50 cm x 60 cm.
Van Gogh moved to Arles in February 1888, after spending two years in Paris. Amidst the Provençal corn and wheat fields van Gogh’s pictorial style underwent several transformations induced partly by inspiration he drew from Japanese prints and the works of his contemporaries, partly on account of his own temperament and aspiration to capture in paint the colors, tempo and emotive flavor of his new home. Harvest in Provence, most likely painted on the spot shortly before June 20, 1888, depicts a fragment of rural life as van Gogh experienced it on a given summer day in his thirty-fifth year. The painting evokes a state of flux: the brushstrokes in the sky are blown about by a nervous summer wind; the line of the horizon undulates under solar heat; the full-bodied farm buildings in the distance crave to be filled with nature’s produce; and in the foreground the bundles of corn dance in the breeze as a final goodbye to their earthy abode. Humanity’s presence in the picture is limited to a lonely farm-worker indicated with a few strokes of paint. As a whole, however, Harvest in Provence is a eulogy to human life—a life van Gogh embraced so compassionately that ultimately he let is slip through his fingers.

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