Wheatfield with Crows Canvas Print

About the Product

Vincent Van Gogh was astoundingly prolific, producing all of his works during a short 10-year period. Although he only sold one painting in his lifetime, he inspired numerous future artistic movements.

Van Gogh worked on a group of paintings ‘The Wheat Field’ that he could see from his cell at Saint-Paul Hospital. From the studio room he could see a field of wheat, enclosed by a wall. Beyond that were the mountains from Arles. During his stay at the asylum, he made about twelve paintings of the view of the enclosed wheat field and distant mountains. Van Gogh wrote "Through the iron-barred window I see a square field of wheat in an enclosure, a perspective like Van Goyen, above which I see the morning sun rising in all its glory." The stone wall, like a picture frame, helped to display the changing colours of the wheat field.

Wheatfield with Crows was painted in July 1890, in the last weeks of van Gogh’s life. Many have claim it as his last painting.

Wheat Field with Crows, made on a double-square canvas, depicts a dramatic, cloudy sky filled with crows over a wheat field. A sense of isolation is heightened by a central path leading nowhere and by the uncertain direction of flight of the crows. The wind-swept wheat field fills two thirds of the canvas. Jules Michelet, one of van Gogh's favourite authors, wrote of the crows: "They interest themselves in everything, and observe everything. The ancients, who lived far more completely than ourselves in and with nature, found it no small profit to follow, in a hundred obscure things where human experience as yet affords no light, the directions of so prudent and sage a bird."Why choose us?

Why choose us?

• • Archival grade canvas
• • Giclee printing method - used by artists and galleries
• • Protective finish - the colours are guaranteed not to fade over 75 years
• • Hand-stretched and inspected to ensure the highest standards and attention to detail
• • The print is framed and ready to hang out of the box
• • Everything included, even the nail

About the Maker

We love printing photos on canvas. But even before we print, our design team works with each of our customers personally till the picture's perfect. Once you are satisfied with the digital proof, the photos are then printed on archival grade canvas using the giclee printing method that's used by artists and galleries. Each print is given a protective finish to ensure that the colours don't fade over decades. The canvas prints are then hand-stretched, framed and inspected to ensure the highest standards and attention to detail.