Van Gogh began painting sunflowers after he left Holland for France in pursuit of creating an artistic community. The firsts were created to decorate his friend Paul Gauguin's bedroom. The majority of Van Gogh's sunflowers in vases were created in Arles, France during Van Gogh did create some sunflower paintings prior to this time though in Paris, France around the time of This series consists of sunflower clippings verses sunflowers in vases.
According to BBC. These paintings captivate the mind and leave you astounded in their simplistic beauty. The flowing wilted steams and the burst of lovely yellow draws ones attention around the painting, without disrupting the balance of the piece.
These paintings are often duplicated but never reach the pure power of Van Gogh's. Feel free to click on any of the sunflower paintings on this page to receive an enlarged view. Below you can look around through various other information we have listed about sunflowers.
Three Sunflowers was not even published in colour until the s. The sheer size of the flowers is dazzling, with the one on the left as large as the pot. He painted the flowers against a vibrant turquoise, quite different from his earlier still-lifes done in Paris when he mainly placed blooms on a dark background. In Arles, Van Gogh became very bold in his use of colour. The next owner was the Parisian couturier Jacques Doucet, a lover of modern art. He commissioned the Art Deco designer Pierre Legrain to create an extremely bold black lacquer frame for the painting now sadly lost.
In , the painting was offered on sale to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, but the deal fell through. Instead it went to an unidentified private collector. When Three Sunflowers eventually surfaces on the market it will probably fetch a record sum for a Van Gogh painting.
The other relatively unknown August still-life is Six Sunflowers. Compared with Three Sunflowers , probably painted just the day before, the blooms here are presented more schematically, emphasising their spiky leafs and sepals. Six Sunflowers was the first Van Gogh to be bought by a Japanese collector. Vincent made his first still lifes of sunflowers in Paris. The painter Paul Gauguin was impressed by them.
Vincent was very honoured to hear this. He had recently got to know Gauguin and looked up to him. For precisely this painter to appreciate his work confirmed his feeling that he was on the right track. Not long after, Vincent moved to the South of France. When he heard that Gauguin would actually be coming, he painted several still lifes of sunflowers with which he decorated the guest bedroom.
Vincent wanted to combine two versions of the Sunflowers with Woman Rocking the Cradle , the portrait that he made as an homage to the comforting mother figure. Together, the paintings were to form a triptych. Vincent thought that the triptych as a whole symbolised gratitude. Use the up and down keys to compare the two images.
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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