Vincent Van Gogh,Sunflowers,oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Arts
Van Gogh painted four still lifes of sunflowers in Paris in late summer 1887.There is an old sketch of this picture (Van Gogh Museum,Amsterdam) as well as another painting of sunflowers also signed and dated (Kunstmuseum Bern) 1887,and a large canvas showing four flower heads (Krōller-Müeller Museum,Otterlo).Paul Gauguin acquired the two smaller works,and until the 1890s when he sold his most prized possessions to finance his South Seas voyage,they held pride of place above the bed in his Paris apartment.
Vincent Van Gogh,Sunflowers,oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Arts
Van Gogh painted four still lifes of sunflowers in Paris in late summer 1887.There is an old sketch of this picture (Van Gogh Museum,Amsterdam) as well as another painting of sunflowers also signed and dated (Kunstmuseum Bern) 1887,and a large canvas showing four flower heads (Krōller-Müeller Museum,Otterlo).Paul Gauguin acquired the two smaller works,and until the 1890s when he sold his most prized possessions to finance his South Seas voyage,they held pride of place above the bed in his Paris apartment.