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In the winter of 1884-1885, Van Gogh made a large series of paintings in Nuenen (NL): studies of farm workers' heads. Peasant women in Brabant really did wear white headdresses in those days. These intrigued Van Gogh because of the contrast with their faces, which remained partly in shadow. 'The heads of these women here with the white caps — it’s difficult — but it’s so eternally ...
- Head of a Woman
Van Gogh hoped one day to become a figure painter. So he was...
- Head of a Man
With his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, after February 1885;...
- The Potato Eaters
Van Gogh saw the Potato Eaters as a showpiece, for which he...
- Head of a Woman
Gordina de Groot. The woman who posed for this portrait is the farmer’s wife Gordina de Groot. She is one of Van Gogh’s favourite models in Nuenen. He makes at least twenty studies of her. Gordina also poses for The potato eaters together with her family. She is the woman in the white cap on the left of the painting. Show all works.
This picture belongs to a group of around 40 peasant portraits that Van Gogh painted directly from life in Nuenen during the winter of 1884–5. All the portraits show the head from the shoulders up, either frontal or in profile, set against a dark background, and all the sitters are wearing their working clothes.
Van Gogh painted many peasants, often picking the most striking ones as models. He valued their 'primitive', unrefined country life and gave them sharp faces that tell of hard work and poverty.<br><br>In the winter of 1884-1885, Van Gogh made a large series of drawings and paintings in Nuenen (NL): studies of heads. This portrait of a local farm worker with fairly coarse features was an ...
In 2022, a Vincent van Gogh's self-portrait was revealed during an X-ray of Head of a Peasant Woman, as National Galleries of Scotland was prepping for an upcoming exhibition on impressionism When Vincent Van Gogh was low on money he took to painting on both sides of the canvas, but over the years some of his reverse side paintings were covered up and lost.
No, thank you. Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Antwerp, December 1885. Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) During his stay in Antwerp, Van Gogh searched for models to sit for portraits. He was hoping to profile himself as a modern painter of contemporary city life.
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The woman's headdress frames her face, and stands out from the dark background of this small picture. It is one of a series of studies Van Gogh made in connection with a larger painting The Potato Eaters (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam), completed in May 1885. Largely self-taught Van Gogh was inspired, in these early paintings of Dutch peasants, by the realism of Millet and Courbet. They are ...
