Wheat Field Behind Saint‑Paul Hospital with a Reaper - Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh was interned several times in Saint-Rémy-de Provence in 1888-1889. He removed the bars from his window and painted what he saw. In a beautiful shortcut, he wrote in a letter: "I saw in this reaper - a vague figure who struggles like a devil in the heat to get through his work - I saw in it the image of death, in the sense that humanity would be the wheat that is reaped. But there is nothing sad about this death, it takes place in full light with a sun that floods everything with a light of fine gold".
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Vincent Van Gogh was interned several times in Saint-Rémy-de Provence in 1888-1889. He removed the bars from his window and painted what he saw. In a beautiful shortcut, he wrote in a letter: "I saw in this reaper - a vague figure who struggles like a devil in the heat to get through his work - I saw in it the image of death, in the sense that humanity would be the wheat that is reaped. But there is nothing sad about this death, it takes place in full light with a sun that floods everything with a light of fine gold".
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