Acknowledged as Vincent’s true masterpiece –a night scene where the peasants sit at a meal around their table. The coarseness of the peasants is emphasized here. The warmth and harmony that the peasant community seemed to share. The painting in black and brown shows that the Impressionism inspired period had not as yet set in.

This masterpiece is dark, and the subject matter here shows the artist’s concern for the hard life of the peasant. According to Vincent, he had tried to emphasize that the farmers, after a day of hard work digging into the earth, put those very hands into the dish. Here he has tried to highlight the dignity of manual labor and how honestly the farmers have earned their meal.

It shows the bedroom in Vincent’s house in Arles. He has painted this in pure colors with strongly drawn outlines. This picture was painted while he waited for the arrival of Paul Gauguin and the picture reflects the artist’s excitement that his solitude was about to end.

In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent has described The Bedroom in Arles, which says,

"Another size 30 canvas. This time it’s just simply my bedroom, only here color is to do everything, and giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, looking at the picture out to rest the brain, or rather the imagination.  The walls are pale violet. The floor is of red tiles. The wood of the bed and chairs is the yellow of fresh butter, the sheets and pillows very light greenish-citron."

"The coverlet scarlet. The window green. The toilet table orange, the basin blue, the doors lilac. And that is all – there is nothing in this room with its closed shutters. The broad lines of the furniture again must express inviolable rest. Portraits on the walls, and a mirror and a towel and some clothes. The frame – as there is no white in the picture – will be white. This by way of revenge for the enforced rest I was obliged to take."

Probably Van Gogh’s best-known painting, it is made up almost entirely in yellow, which was Vincent’s favorite color. It was August, the sunflowers were blooming, and Van Gogh desperately wanted to capture them in a series of 12 pictures.

He wanted to use this sunflower series to decorate Paul Gauguin’s room when he arrived in Arles. He ended up executing four such paintings out of which he liked only two, which he felt were good enough to hang in Gauguin’s room.

After his admission to the mental asylum, Vincent was allowed to paint outdoors. He was fascinated by the shape, form and texture of the cypresses and brought them to life in this fascinating piece of work.

This is a very depressing picture as the title suggests. Here Vincent’s mistress Sein modeled for him, and this sketch shows her depressed and pregnant as he had found her first.

This bright piece of work is a vivid scene in six basic colors. The orange of the banks is a stark contrast to the blue of the river and the sky. This picture clearly shows the artist’s love for contrasting colors like brown and green or blue and yellow.

This is probably one of Vincent’s final works and is the most controversial. The crows rising above the stormy skies probably reflect Vincent’s own mental state in his last days. The churning wheat field must display the inner turmoil of the artist as well.

Anticipating Gauguin’s arrival, Vincent had purchased a chair for him. Since he always ended up painting a new subject, he too painted this wonderful picture. He had got this idea of the painting from an engraving of Charles Dickens chair that he had purchased in London, in commemoration of the great author. This picture also shows the dashes and swirls technique that Vincent used.

He has commemorated the incident with Paul Gauguin when he had threatened him with a razor and then he eventually cut off his own ear lobe. The nightmare of insanity from which he never fully recovered.

This picture was painted a month before he committed suicide. The picture of the village church has a strange look to it with twisted shapes and a strange perspective. The colors used are harsh.