Van Gogh completed 70 oil paintings during his 70 days in Auvers, including Wheat Field With Crows (1890)- surely one of his most famous landscape paintings with
its ominous black birds.
Not exact matches
The large paintings, a continuation of the artist's latest «Wrestler» series, feature muscular male figures in acrobatic stances against bright backdrops dotted with a curious dog here or an
ominous swarm of
black birds there.
In other works,
ominous, oversized
black birds hover in the air or land upon their chests, strange signs of some possessive afterlife, lingering like fate.