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Van Gogh, paintings and drawings: a special loan exhibition, a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on this painting (see index) The Potato Eaters (1885), oil on canvas, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; The Potato Eaters (1885), oil on canvas, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
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According to the legend, Van Gogh sold only one painting, The Red Vineyard, bought for 400 francs by the painter and art collector Anna Boch. [1] Today, he is widely regarded as one of history's greatest painters and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art .
Van Gogh may have been inspired by the description of Jean-François Millet's biographer, Alfred Sensier of Potato Planting: "one of his [Millet's] most beautiful works" of a married couple "on a wide plain, at the edge of which is a village is lost in the luminous atmosphere; the man opens the ground and the woman drops in the seed potato ...
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Van Gogh used Millet's work, and Alfred Delaunay's etching of Millet's work, as inspiration for this painting. In Van Gogh's version he added black crows and made the winter scene more bleak, deserted and cold. His choice of color, composition and brushstroke make this work uniquely his own. [56] Two Peasant Women Digging in the Snow April, 1890