1887, Vincent van Gogh, Four sunflowers gone to seed -- Kroller-Muller Museum (Otterlo)
From the museum label: Helene Kröller-Müller purchases the painting in 1908, less than a year after her decision to compile a collection of modern painting. It is the second Van Gogh painting for her collection; she acquired Edge of a wood a few months earlier.
Four sunflowers gone to seed is an unusual painting. Here, Vincent van Gogh does not paint flowers in a vase or pot, no arranged bouquet of different flowers, no surroundings and no background; just a few cut sunflowers gone to seed. The flowers are painted life size and fill the entire canvas.
Not only the combination of warm and cool colours and the swirling brushstrokes in all directions, but also the strange, indefinable space in which the sunflowers are placed, make this painting one of the highlights of his Parisian period.
Link to other van Gogh paintings
1887, Vincent van Gogh, Four sunflowers gone to seed -- Kroller-Muller Museum (Otterlo)
From the museum label: Helene Kröller-Müller purchases the painting in 1908, less than a year after her decision to compile a collection of modern painting. It is the second Van Gogh painting for her collection; she acquired Edge of a wood a few months earlier.
Four sunflowers gone to seed is an unusual painting. Here, Vincent van Gogh does not paint flowers in a vase or pot, no arranged bouquet of different flowers, no surroundings and no background; just a few cut sunflowers gone to seed. The flowers are painted life size and fill the entire canvas.
Not only the combination of warm and cool colours and the swirling brushstrokes in all directions, but also the strange, indefinable space in which the sunflowers are placed, make this painting one of the highlights of his Parisian period.
Link to other van Gogh paintings