Sunflowers

"Sunflowers" by Vincent van Gogh

To the best of our knowledge van Gogh painted only four still lifes of sunflowers (oil on canvas) in Paris in late summer 1887. There is an oil sketch for this picture, which can be seen at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. There are two paintings of sunflowers also signed and dated 1887 by the artist, and a larger version showing the heads of four sunflowers. Paul Gauguin acquired the two of Vincent's sunflowers paintings, and until the mid-1890s, they were on display in Gaugin's bedroom above his bed in his Paris apartment. Paul Gaugin enjoyed them so much, he probably attempted to make a trifcecta of van Gogh's sunflower paintings. 

At the time Gauguin acquired two of van Gogh's sunflowers paintings, van Gogh most likely still had the other two in his possession; because in a letter we learned that Van Gogh wasn't willing to continue swapping paintings with Gauguin (or at least not his two remaining sunflower paintings. "I am definitely keeping my sunflowers in question. He has two of them already, let that hold him. And if he is not satisfied with the exchange he has made with me, he can take back his little Martinique canvas, and his self-portrait sent me from Brittany, at the same time giving me back both my portrait and the two sunflower canvases which he has taken to Paris. So if he ever broaches this subject again, I've told you just how matters stand." 

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Color Changing Fine Art Print
Painter: Vincent van Gogh 
Composition by: EFX Gallery
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Source: Vincent van Gogh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons