Van Gogh painted a landscape every day before his death
In the final weeks of his life, the artist produced a series of panoramic wheatfields to express both extreme loneliness and the fortifying power of nature.
During his final month in the farming village of Auvers sur Oise, Vincent van Gogh became obsessed with the vast expanse of the local wheatfields, which he described as being as large as a sea. In a remarkable burst of creative energy during July 1890, he was completing a new painting nearly every single day. These works were often created in a double square panoramic format, capturing the undulating Vexin plain just days before his death.
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