Head of a Woman
Vincent van Gogh (1885)
Van Gogh’s Head of a Woman turns a peasant’s face into a study of <strong>character and moral weight</strong>. With a near‑black ground, raking light from the left, and an earthbound range of greens and ochres, the painting asserts <strong>dignity without prettiness</strong>, anticipating the ethos of The Potato Eaters <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
