Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Wheatfield
| Year of creation: | 1879 |
| Original size: | 50.5 cm x 61.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Carmen Thyssen Collection, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
Wheatfield is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1879. The original measures 50.5 x 61.0 cm, is catalogued as CTB.1961.11 and belongs to the Carmen Thyssen Collection, shown at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid. Our oil painting on canvas Wheatfield is worked by hand in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 70 x 60 to 150 x 120 cm.
The lower two thirds of the canvas are filled with ripe corn, set down in short strokes of cream, yellow and pale rose, with green blades still showing through at the front. A path runs into the field at the centre. At the left a group of trees in blue-green and grey closes the edge; behind the field the ground rises into low hills, and at the right lies a dark red-brown band of worked earth. The sky is pale and clouded, brushed in broadly. There are no figures.
The signature at the lower right reads Renoir. 79, which confirms the museum’s date on its own. The picture is simple in the best sense: no scene, no story, just a field at the end of summer and the light standing over it.
Our version is not a print. The ears of corn are made of hundreds of short, separate strokes laid side by side in shifting directions, and it is that density which gives the field its movement. A hand-painted canvas keeps that difference in the way the paint sits, which printed paper cannot imitate.
The warm gold-and-green subject is easy to place in a living room, a dining room or a bedroom, including on a wall that gets little light. For a smaller wall 80 x 65 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 120 x 100 cm. We paint to order, in a different size on request. Before dispatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval. Every oil painting on canvas Wheatfield arrives ready to hang, with the canvas stretched on a wooden frame.
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