Sunflowers (Van Gogh Museum)
1889 · Oil on canvas · Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
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About this work
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
- Year
- 1889
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 95 × 73 cm
- Collection
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
- Series
- Sunflowers (Arles series)
Fifteen sunflowers in a plain yellow jug against a yellow wall, painted in three shades of yellow and little else. Van Gogh made his first vase of sunflowers in Arles in August 1888 to decorate the room where Gauguin was to stay, meaning the pictures as a message of gratitude; Gauguin admired them and later asked for one. In January 1889, after Gauguin had left, he painted repetitions of two of the Arles canvases, and this is the January repetition of the fourth version. A strip of wood was added at the top, probably by Van Gogh himself. The painting never left the family: it passed to Theo, then to his widow and son, and is now on permanent loan from the Vincent van Gogh Foundation to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The sunflowers are the works he hoped would be remembered as entirely his own.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Three shades of yellow and little else, a warm picture for a kitchen, breakfast nook or north-facing living room at 24×36 in natural wood. A white or soft grey wall; hang it beside the London Sunflowers for the pair Van Gogh himself repeated.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1889)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- butter yellow
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, kitchen, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — natural wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
