A Wheatfield with Cypresses is any of three similar 1889
paintings by Vincent van Gogh. The National Gallery in London holds a September
1889 version. Another, painted in July of the same year, is in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York. The third is held by a private collection. All were
executed at the Saint-Remy mental asylum near Arles, France; he was a patient
there at that time.
In a letter to his brother, Theo, Vincent described the
painting: "I have a canvas of cypresses with some ears of wheat, some
poppies, a blue sky like a piece of Scotch plaid; the former painted with a
thick impasto ... and the wheat field in the sun, which represents the extreme
heat, very thick too."
