The flowers in van Gogh’s “Irises” (1889), which was the most expensive painting sold at auction at the time when it fetched $53.9 million at Sotheby’s in 1987, were never supposed to be ...
O n May 9, 1889, the day after Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh moved into a psychiatric hospital, he began a painting of some flowers in the institution’s garden. The resulting Irises is now owned ...
Flowers, trees and gardens were subjects of many of the best. In London, the current show covers the two previous years. It is entitled rather tenuously Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, but gardens and ...
Vincent van Gogh's deep blue lilies, vibrant sunflowers, and golden wheat fields leap from the canvas as if they're living flowers. This spring, they will be. New York Botanical Garden is hosting ...
Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the exhibition (Image ... in a playful and dreamlike way as they are enveloped in colourful flowers, cafés and stunning landscapes, shifting and swirling across the ...
What effect do they think this has? Afterwards, pupils could be given a still life to paint, perhaps a vase of flowers, in the style of Van Gogh using quick strokes and lots of paint. During the ...