梵高油画头像习作《女人头像》

　　This woman is Gordina de Groot, who posed with her family forThe Potato Eaters. To prepare for that painting, Van Gogh made over 40 studies of farmworkers' heads, including this one. He hoped this would make him a better figure painter.

　　Van Gogh wanted to portray peasants as people of a special kind, who had been working the land for centuries. 'They remind one of the earth, sometimes appear to have been modelled out of it,' Vincent wrote to his brother Theo.

　　This work was a study in colour. Van Gogh concentrated on thecomplementary coloursred and green.

　　这位女士是戈尔迪娜·德·格鲁特，她与家人一起为《吃土豆的人》这幅画做模特。为了准备那幅画，梵高对农民工的头部进行了40多次研究，包括这个头部。他希望这能让他成为一名更好的人物画家。

　　梵高希望将农民描绘成独特的人种，他们已经在土地上劳作了几个世纪。“他们让人想起土地，有时似乎是从土地中塑造出来的，”文森特写信给他的弟弟西奥说。

　　这项作品是一项色彩研究。梵高专注于互补色红色和绿色。