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Women On The Peat Moor Large Framed Print
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Van Gogh painted these peasant women in the village of Nieuw-Amsterdam, in the rural Dutch province of Drenthe. He spent two months there in the autumn of 1883. The women are at work, probably gathering dried-out peat sods. Van Gogh was fascinated with the simple country life. He had already spent more than two years trying to 'examine and draw everything that's part of a peasant's life', he wrote.
While painting Women on the Peat Moor, he changed his mind about the scene a couple of times. For instance, research has shown that he first painted four figures rather than two. |
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Women On The Peat Moor Large Framed Print
Framed With Mat •
47x36 inches
Van Gogh painted these peasant women in the village of Nieuw-Amsterdam, in the rural Dutch province of Drenthe. He spent two months there in the autumn of 1883. The women are at work, probably gathering dried-out peat sods. Van Gogh was fascinated with the simple country life. He had already spent more than two years trying to 'examine and draw everything that's part of a peasant's life', he wrote. While painting Women on the Peat Moor, he changed his mind about the scene a couple of times. For instance, research has shown that he first painted four figures rather than two.
Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks but received little recognition during his lifetime. Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime and was considered a madman and a failure. He became famous after his suicide, and exists in the public imagination as the quintessential misunderstood and tortured genius artist.