1889年6月末ごろ、サン＝レミの療養院にいたゴッホが、近くの麦畑で描いた風景画です。風にゆれる黄金色の麦畑、右にそびえる濃い緑の糸杉、奥の青い山なみ。空には白い雲が、まるで生き物のようにうずを巻いています。『星月夜』の少しあとの作品で、ニューヨークのメトロポリタン美術館にあります。

In late June 1889, while staying at the hospital in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted this landscape of a nearby wheat field. Golden wheat moves in the wind, a dark green cypress rises on the right, and blue hills lie in the distance. White clouds swirl in the sky as if they were alive. It was painted shortly after 'The Starry Night' and is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

ゴッホは糸杉に夢中で、手紙に「線もつり合いも、エジプトのオベリスクのように美しい」と書いています。この絵は屋外で景色を前にして描かれたと考えられ、絵の具はとても厚くぬられています。ゴッホは弟テオに、ポピーと麦の穂と糸杉、そして「スコットランドの格子じまのような青い空」の絵を描いたと伝えました。

Van Gogh was fascinated by cypresses. He wrote that their lines and proportions were as beautiful as an Egyptian obelisk. He probably painted this outdoors in front of the view, and the paint is very thick. He told his brother Theo that he had painted cypresses, ears of wheat, poppies and 'a blue sky like a piece of Scotch plaid'.

ゴッホはこの絵を夏のいちばんの作品の一つと考え、9月に療養院のアトリエで、ほぼ同じ大きさのくり返し（ロンドンのナショナル・ギャラリー）と、母と妹のための小さな版を描きました。この絵は何人もの持ち主の手をへて、1993年、ウォルター・アネンバーグの資金でメトロポリタン美術館のものになりました。

Van Gogh thought this was one of his best summer paintings. In September, in his studio at the hospital, he painted a repetition of almost the same size (now in the National Gallery, London) and a smaller one for his mother and sister. After many owners, this painting came to the Metropolitan Museum in 1993, paid for by Walter Annenberg.