Wheatfield with Crows

A dark sky presses down on golden wheat as crows explode across the canvas, their black forms cutting sharp diagonals against the turbulent clouds. One of the most powerful works of the final weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise, this painting has become an icon of Van Gogh’s late style — the agitated brushwork, the saturated complementary colors, the sense of nature as a living, threatening force.