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Sunflowers
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sunflowers (Van Gogh), Sunflowers Van Gogh series, Sunflowers Van Gogh
series of paintings by Vincent van Gogh
Key facts
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Catalogue
- F454 JH1562
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 92.2 cm × 73 cm (36.3 in × 29 in)
- Location
- National Gallery , London
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Van Gogh - Zwölf Sonnenblumen in einer Vase1.jpeg
- Height
- 95
- Width
- 73
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- Commons category
- Sunflowers (van Gogh)
- inception
- 1888-00-00
- native label
- Tournesols
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Article
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 second set, made a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. About eight months later, van Gogh hoped to welcome and impress Gauguin again with Sunflowers, now part of the painted Décoration for the Yellow House that he prepared for the guestroom of his home in Arles, where Gauguin was supposed to stay.
The Paris Sunflowers