Print by Vincent van Gogh - The Potato Eaters - 1885
Vincent van Gogh The Potato Eaters
Year: 1885 - oil on canvas cm 114x82
Preserved at: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Holland.
Vincent van Gogh created The Potato Eaters to represent a simple and poor family of peasants who, after having spent the day working hard in the fields, gathers around the table to have a miserable dinner.
Van Gogh writes to his brother Theo: «I wanted, while working, to make it clear that these poor people, who in the light of a lamp eat potatoes, serving from the plate with their hands, have themselves hoed the land where those potatoes grew; the painting, therefore, evokes manual labor and suggests that those peasants honestly deserved to eat what they eat. I would absolutely not want everyone to limit themselves to finding it beautiful or valuable "
