Provenance

Curt Herrmann

German, 1854 - 1929

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Verdant green fields roll in undulating waves back alongside a road in this horizontal landscape painting. The fields take up the left and center of the composition and are painted with thick, curling strokes of emerald, pea, and celery green, and corn yellow to suggest grasses and plants. The pale green road runs up along the right edge of the painting, and is layered with strokes and daubs in butter yellow, spring green, and faint blue. The fields and road meet the horizon line about halfway up the canvas, where an aquamarine-blue sky swirling with white and periwinkle-blue clouds fills the top half of the painting.
Vincent van Gogh, Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, 1890, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2013.122.1

Green Wheat Fields, Auvers

Vincent van Gogh · 1890 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2013.122.1

Bibliography

1911

  • Hermann, Curt. Der Kampf um den Stil. Berlin, 1911.

1989

  • Bothe, Roth. "Der Sammler Französischer Kunst." In Curt Hermann 1854-1929 Ein Maler der Moderne in Berlin. Exh. cat. Berlin Museum, 1989: 71-101.