Field with Poppies — Vincent van Gogh, Auvers 1890

In the Auvers summer of 1890 Van Gogh moved through the fields at speed, painting landscape after landscape. The poppies here are scattered in the green in short, decisive marks — not the meditative density of earlier Saint-Rémy canvases, but something more open and urgent. The brushwork carries the pace of that final summer. A postcard for a field-season collection or an urgent greeting. From the Vincent van Gogh collection.