Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
Sunflowers, before Arles
The record dates Two Cut Sunflowers to 1887. Twelve titles in this catalogue name a sunflower, and only three of them are dated 1888: six carry 1887, one 1886 and two 1889. The motif most firmly attached to Arles in popular accounts is, in this record, mostly a Paris one — which is exactly the error an earlier version of this site made when it grouped works by words in the title and filed a Montmartre path from 1887 under Arles because the title said sunflowers.
What the record gives
The work is held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds thirty-four of the ninety-five works dated 1887. No dimensions are recorded. The measured palette reads as ochre and yellow.
Ochre in the second Paris year
Ochre dominates twenty-one of the ninety-five works dated 1887, its joint highest count in the decade alongside 1889. It had appeared in none at all dated 1883 or 1884. The family's return through the Paris years is one of the plainer movements in the measured record, and it belongs to the date rather than to the subject: the catalogue holds sunflower titles in four different years, and their palettes do not agree with each other.
Sources
4 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
- Two Cut Sunflowers — Wikidata
description: painting by Vincent van Gogh; inception: 1887-09-01; dimensions: 50 × 60 cm; collection: Kunstmuseum Bern
- Sunflowers (Van Gogh series) — Wikipedia
Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) is the title of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the sec
- Vincent van Gogh - Four Cut Sunflowers — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
