Wheatfield Under Threatening Skies with Crows, Auvers-sur-Oise 1890 - Vincent Van Gogh

'What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity, or an eccentric and disagreeable man - somebody who has no position in society and never will have, in short, the lowest of the low. Very well, even if this were true, then I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.' This is what Van Gogh said in 1882, eight years before he painted the wheatfield seen here, considered by many to be the last painting he did before he shot himself. 'This is my ambition, which is, in spite of everything, founded less on anger than on love, more on serenity than passion. It is true that I am often in the greatest misery, but still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside me.'