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1890, Vincent van Gogh, Irises [New York] -- 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 a high-resolution close-up photo of details from this painting.
Link to other van Gogh paintings.
1890, Vincent van Gogh, Irises [New York] -- 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 a high-resolution close-up photo of details from this painting.
Link to other van Gogh paintings.