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Price in US $ - 47.5 million
Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat is an 1890
painting by Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh went on to paint several versions of
this painting. The excellent painting was an oil work on a canvas sized 36 1/4
* 28 3/4 (92 * 73 cm). One such version was used in Stanlist political art of
1930; where a peasant woman is portrayed holding sheaves of wheat. This peasant
woman represented a complex and controversial image in the lexicon of Soviet
political art. Peasant Woman was also depicted in Nikolai Kochergin's poster.
In this poster, Nikolai depicted the woman as a buxom woman wearing a kerchief
and bast shoes.
