Sunflowers

See also: Sunflower (homonymy)

Painted between 1888 and 1889, the Sunflowers is a series of 7 tables very famous of Vincent Van Gogh.

This series of Still life is composed in particular of three similar paintings with fifteen sunflowers in a vase and two similar paintings with twelve sunflowers in a vase. It is in August 1888, whereas he lived with Arles (France) that Van Gogh carried out the first vase with twelve sunflowers, which is exposed today to the museum Neue Pinakothek with Munich in Germany, as well as the first vase with fifteen sunflowers, which is now with the National Gallery of London in England. Other paintings were painted in January the following year.

Paintings show Tournesol S in all the stages of their life, all in flower until fading. The tables were innovating for the time thanks to the use of a broad spectrum of yellows made possible by the invention of new dyes.

At the beginning, Van Gogh painted the first sunflowers to decorate the room to be slept of her friend Paul Gauguin. In 1891, the writer Octave Mirbeau buys of them one with the father Tanguy for 300 francs (45 euros).

In March 1987, even those not having any affinity for art learned the existence from the series " Tournesols" when the Japanese tycoon of the insurance, Yasuo Goto, bought one of the tables for the equivalent of 40,8 million euros at the time of a Auction at Christie' S in London, price which constituted at the time a record for a work of Van Gogh.

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