Wheat Field with Crows

Vincent Van Gogh painted Wheatfield with Crows in July. It is commonly been perceived as his last painting though this is not the case. The misunderstanding is partly fed by "seeing the dramatic, cloudy sky filled with crows and the cut-off path as obvious portents of his coming end"

It is however a normal interpretation of this painting that it shows Van Gogh's troubled state of mind with the dark, forbidding sky, the indecision of three paths going in different directions and the black crows overhead being signs of foreboding or even death. The artist wrote that he had made three paintings in Auvers of large fields of wheat under troubled skies.

Van Gogh committed suicide the month he painted this picture. It is generally agreed that he went for a walk in the fields on the evening of July 27, 1890, and shot himself with a revolver, then made his way back home. He survived for three days before he died with his brother Theo at his side.

This painting is in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.