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TITLE: Sunflowers
ARTIST: Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
SIZE: 23" x 23"
PIECES: 1000
PRICE: $200
MADE BY: Wentworth
DESCRIPTION: This is one of four paintings of sunflowers
dating from August and September of 1888. Van Gogh intended to decorate
Gauguin's room with these paintings in the so-called Yellow House that he
rented in Arles in the South of France. He and Gauguin worked there
together between October and December 1888. Van Gogh wrote to his
brother Theo in August 1888, "I am hard at it, painting with the
enthusiasm of a Marseillais eating bouillabaisse, which won't surprise you
when you know that what I'm at is the painting of some sunflowers. If I
carry out this idea there will be a dozen panels. So the whole thing will
be a symphony in blue and yellow. I am working at it every morning from
sunrise on, for the flowers fade so quickly. I am now
on the fourth picture of sunflowers. This fourth one is a bunch of 14
flowers ... it gives a singular effect." The dying flowers are
built up with thick brushstrokes (impasto). The impasto evokes the texture
of the seed-heads. Van Gogh produced a replica of this painting in January
1889, and perhaps another one
later in the year. The various versions and replicas remain much debated
among Van Gogh scholars.
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