The Potato Eaters, 1885 – Vincent van Gogh Wall Art | Dutch Realist Figure Canvas Print

Painted in Nuenen in 1885, Vincent van Gogh's The Potato Eaters is the defining masterwork of his early Dutch period and one of the most powerful social realist paintings in the history of Western art. A peasant family gathered around a lamp-lit table to share a meal of potatoes is rendered in the dark, earthy palette of his early style, the rough, knotted hands and weathered faces of the figures conveying with extraordinary empathy the dignity and hardship of rural labour. Van Gogh considered the work the most important of his career to that date, stating that he wished to depict people who had earned their food by hard work. Now held in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, it remains among his most emotionally resonant works. A profoundly moving and historically defining work for any interior that values the full range of Van Gogh's achievement.