1883 · F19 · JH409
Women on the Peat Moor
Women on the Peat Moor, 1883. Meaning, analysis, themes, technique, period and related Van Gogh artworks connected from The Back of Beyond.
Women on the Peat Moor meaning and analysis
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The only one of the three with figures. Two bending forms, nearly solid black, are cut out by a streak of orange-red along the horizon; a wheelbarrow at the left, a mound of peat at the right. That streak is the brightest thing in the picture and no wider than a finger, yet it decides whether the picture can be seen at all.