![Vincent van Gogh - Landscape Beneath a Hectic Sky [1889]](http://c7.staticflickr.com/1/621/31254020854_7b135c5170_b.jpg)
Painted amidst the most fruitful period of the artist's career, when his canvases were flooded with rich passages of densely-painted colour, the composition depicts a verdant field under threat of an explosive rainstorm. Van Gogh creates a scene of intense anticipation here, replete with psychological drama as the labourers hurry to finish their work before the heavens rain down upon them. This painting was completed only two months before Van Gogh executed what is arguably his most celebrated work, The Starry Night, now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 73.7 cm]