Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh
$63.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Sunflowers, painted in Paris in the late summer of 1887, is one of four still lifes Vincent van Gogh devoted to these radiant yellow blooms before his move to Arles the following year. Working during a period of intense artistic ferment in the French capital, van Gogh explored the sunflower's expressive potential well before the more famous vase paintings he would create in Provence, experimenting here with a looser, more Impressionist-influenced touch.
Rendered in a dense mosaic of short, energetic brushstrokes, the composition captures the sunflowers in various states of bloom and decay, their rough, weathered textures rendered with an almost sculptural physicality. Paul Gauguin so admired this and a companion canvas that he acquired both, keeping them above his bed in Paris until financial necessity forced him to sell his most treasured possessions before departing for the South Seas.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Vincent van Gogh |
| Year | 1887 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 17 x 24 in. (43.2 x 61 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism |
