What was the last painting that Van Gogh painted? I know that "Wheat Field with Crows" : http://www.overstockart.com/whfiunthsk.html . The painting is considered to be the oldest one but is that really the case?
2007-02-24 06:53:20 · 2 answers · asked by amitai 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
No. This is a common misconception.
Dr. Jan Hulsker in his 1996 catalogue raisonné The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches states:
Because of the tendency to romanticize Van Gogh, this dramatic painting [Wheat Field with Crows] has often been regarded as his last work. That it must have originated in the final weeks of the Auvers period seems apparent from the fact that it depicts a field of fully ripened grain. The grain was still green in the earliest paintings from this period. Yet, as the painting with the ominous crows is not mentioned in the letters, we can only speculate about its exact date. We do know that it was not one of the two new works Vincent himself mentioned in the letter he wrote on July 23, only four days before he shot himself, Letter 651. These were Daubigny's Garden (2105) and Cottages with Thatched Roofs (2116), both of which are far more likely to have been the last paintings he made.
2007-02-24 15:20:03 · answer #1 · answered by noirjet70 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most art historians believe that was his last painting. I haven't heard that there is any disagreement with that.
Rod
2007-02-24 06:59:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋