Provenance: Winkel & Magnussen auction 333, 1946 no. 372.

The present painting clearly shows how much Wegmann was inspired by the French art scene of the late 1800s, which she had come to know in depth during her many study tours to Paris in the 1880s. Here she became, among other things, influenced by the plein air painting and the Impressionism.

Here Bertha Wegmann has depicted a landscape with a cornfield with a painting style that moves in the direction of Impressionism with the significantly visible and loose brushstrokes. While many of her works also possess a high degree of naturalism, the motif of the present painting is almost completely dissolved and abstract in its expression.

Wegmann has chosen an unusual point of view for her composition, and we find ourselves down at the height of the grains. At the ground, small fine poppies and cornflowers grow up. The cornfield is painted with long oblique strokes, while the corn ears are indicated with short, fat and pasty strokes in white and pale-yellow shades, applied in different directions, which creates life and movement in the painting. Together with the grey and threatening sky, you get the feeling of a gathering storm, and you can almost see the wind moving through the cornfield.