<b>Vincent Van Gogh</b>
(1853 - 1890)

 

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His oeuvre includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, most of which are characterised by bold colours and dramatic brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art. Van Gogh's work was only beginning to gain critical attention before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot at age 37. During his lifetime, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, The Red Vineyard, was sold. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun
1889
Oil on canvas
73 × 92 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum

 

Reaper (French: faucheur, lit. 'reaper'), Wheat Field with Reaper, or Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun is the title given to each of a series of three oil-on-canvas paintings by Vincent van Gogh of a man reaping a wheat field under a bright early-morning sun. To the artist, the reaper represented death and "humanity would be the wheat being reaped". However, Van Gogh did not consider the work to be sad but "almost smiling" and taking "place in broad daylight with a sun that floods everything with a light of fine gold".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaper_(Van_Gogh_series)

 

 The Reaper in Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Reaper in Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany