The Potato Eaters
One of Van Gogh’s famous earliest works is The Potato Eaters. Van Gogh spent a great deal of time working on perfecting The Potato Eaters as he thought it would be his breakthrough painting.
One of Van Gogh’s famous earliest works is The Potato Eaters. Van Gogh spent a great deal of time working on perfecting The Potato Eaters as he thought it would be his breakthrough painting.
This time of year, we celebrate the harvest and reap the benefits of the year’s hard work. Van Gogh frequently wrote about harvest time in his letters, and he often compared the harvest season to his own work and how he would someday get back all that he put into it.
From 1886 to 1888 Van Gogh was living in Paris. It was during this time that he created many still life paintings including several paintings of shoes. Find out more about these works.