Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
1889
The record dates Irises to 1889, the year in which the catalogue's chronology moves from Arles to Saint-Rémy. Five works here name irises in their titles, spread across 1888, 1889 and 1890 — one in the Arles year, two in 1889 and two in the last year.
What the record gives
The canvas measures 71 x 93 cm and is held by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The measured palette is unusually specific: green, blue and turquoise, in that order. Turquoise registers as a dominant family in only fourteen of the 610 works in this catalogue.
A garden subject in a year of gardens
Six works dated 1889 carry "garden" in the title, several of them naming the garden of the Saint-Paul hospital directly. Whether this canvas belongs to that enclosure is not stated by the record, and it is not asserted here. What the record does establish is the shape of the year: 116 painted works, a vocabulary of olive trees, wheat, hospital grounds and cut or growing flowers, and a palette in which green has become the second most common dominant family after yellow — 53 works of the 116, against twelve in the whole of 1885.
Sources
7 references- Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ vɑŋ ˈɣɔx] ; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he c
- Irises — Wikidata
description: painting by Vincent van Gogh in the J. Paul Getty Museums; inception: 1889-05; dimensions: 74.3 × 94.3 cm; collection: J. Paul Getty Museum
- getty.edu — record for "Irises"
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- getty.edu — reference for "Irises (painting)"
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- Irises (painting) — Wikipedia
Irises is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Painted in 1889, the work is a landscape with a cropped composition and is one of a series of several hundred paintings that van Gogh made at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Sa
- metmuseum.org — reference for "Irises (painting)"
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- vangoghmuseum.nl — reference for "Irises (painting)"
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