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Vincent Van Gogh Vase With Irises

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Vincent Van Gogh Vase Of Irises Against A Yellow Background

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. While in the asylum at
Saint-Remy, France, Van Gogh overcame a period of crisis (ending in April 1890). After this, Van Gogh painted two still lifes for which he used as a model irises he picked up from the nearby fields. The
irises are set against a bright lemon-yellow background with other yellow tints in the vase and the base it stands on. Its effect is one of ‘enormously divergent omplementary colors that are exalted by their oppositions’, he wrote in a letter to his brother Theo.

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Vincent Van Gogh Three Sunflowers In A Vase

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Vincent Van Gogh Three Sunflowers In A Vase (1888)

Sunflowers (original title in French: Tournesols) are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The earlier series executed in Paris in 1887 depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set executed a year later in Arles shows bouquets of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist’s mind both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. About eight months later Van Gogh hoped to welcome and to impress Gauguin again with Sunflowers, now part of the painted decoration that he prepared for the guestroom of his Yellow House, where Gauguin was supposed to stay in Arles. After Gauguin’s departure, Van Gogh imagined the two major versions as wings of the Berceuse Triptych, and finally he included them in his exhibit at Les XX in Bruxelles.
Sunflowers (F.453), first version: turquoise background
Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 60 cm
Private collection

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