Wheat Field at Auvers with House

In the last weeks of his life Van Gogh worked at a pace that is hard to credit. Between arriving in Auvers-sur-Oise in May 1890 and his death at the end of July, roughly 70 days, he made about 70 paintings, more than one a day, of the wheat fields, gardens and houses around the town. This is one of them, a white house half-hidden behind a rising field of grain. He had just left the asylum at Saint-Remy in the south and was under the informal care of Dr Paul Gachet, a physician who collected art and painted himself. The grain here is worked in thick, upright strokes, so the field seems to lean toward you.