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1890, Vincent van Gogh, Irises [New York] (detail) -- Museum of Modern Art (New York)
From the museum label: Irises is one of four paintings of flowers that Van Gogh created toward the end of his year-long stay at a psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, a village in the South of France. He gathered roses and irises from the institution's garden and painted two still lifes of each in a spare room that functioned as a makeshift studio. In a letter to his brother, Theo, he wrote, "These last days here are once again like a revelation of color to me."
Irises belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As part of a reciprocal agreement, Irises is on display at MOMA this summer while MoMA's The Starry Night is on view at the Met in the exhibition Van Gogh's Cypresses.
Link to the full painting.
Link to other van Gogh paintings.
1890, Vincent van Gogh, Irises [New York] (detail) -- Museum of Modern Art (New York)
From the museum label: Irises is one of four paintings of flowers that Van Gogh created toward the end of his year-long stay at a psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, a village in the South of France. He gathered roses and irises from the institution's garden and painted two still lifes of each in a spare room that functioned as a makeshift studio. In a letter to his brother, Theo, he wrote, "These last days here are once again like a revelation of color to me."
Irises belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As part of a reciprocal agreement, Irises is on display at MOMA this summer while MoMA's The Starry Night is on view at the Met in the exhibition Van Gogh's Cypresses.
Link to the full painting.
Link to other van Gogh paintings.