Poppy Field

They represent the Auvers he saw around him and, more important, the place he imagined it to be: a perfected rural space that is fertile and green … Van Gogh’s Poppy field dates from this period. Its composition and use of colour are highly reminiscent of those in Claude Monet’s 1881 painting of the same subject (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) but Van Gogh has elevated the horizon, so that the field of flowers occupies a larger proportion of the picture plane.