Vincent van Gogh The Sunflowers
Painting: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Style: Post-Impressionism
Subject: Floral Still Life
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 93.0 x 73.0 cm
Original Location: Arles
Year: August, 1888
F454, JH1562
Museum: London, National Gallery
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Painting: Bouquet of Chrysanthemums
Artist: Auguste Renoir
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 26×21.875”
Year: 1881
Renoir painted many floral still lifes, in part because they were inexpensive to produce and easily marketable. Additionally they provided an opportunity for experimentation. Renoir told a friend, “When I paint flowers, I feel free to try out tones and values and worry less about destroying the canvas”
Painting: Bouquet of Sunflowers
Artist: Claude Monet
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 39.25×32
Year: 1881
Monet painted floral still lives during periods of bad weather. Most of the ones he painted in the late 1870s and early 1880s feature casually arranged bouquets of a single type of flower, such as dahlias, mallows, asters, or Jerusalem artichoke flowers. These sunflowers were surely picked from the artist’s garden in Vetheuil, where they grew in abundance.
Painting: Vase of Roses (Still Life: Pink Roses in A Vase)
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 36.875×29.125″
Year: 1890
In May 1889, Van Gogh voluntarily committed himself into an asylum in Saint-Remy. Before leaving the following year, he painted a decorative ensemble of four floral still lifes, two paintings of irises and two of roses. He felt that these pictures were proof that he was “cured”.
Painting: Roses and Lilies
Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 23.5×18″
Year: 1888
Fantin-Latour painted more than five hundred floral still lifes over the course of his career. Accounts of the artist’s working methods in the mid-1880s reveal that he would paint a piece of cardboard and his canvas the same neutral color. Once the paint had dried, he placed the cardboard behind his floral arrangement in order to have a clear sense of how best to represent shadows and highlights on his canvas.
Painting: Pansies
Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 1903
Size: 9×11.125″
Fantin-Latour prided himself on his figurative works, but it was his floral still lifes that were most popular with contemporary collectors, especially British ones. In this informal study of pansies, the artist has used the end of his paint brush to carve out details in the thick paint of the petals.
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