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TITLE: Sunflowers
ARTIST: Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
SIZE: 10" x 7"
PIECES: 140 (also available 500
and 1000 piece cardboard)
PRICE: $32
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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