Sunflowers (Van Gogh series)

The painting Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase was August 1888 painted by Vincent van Gogh in Arles ( South of France ). It is part of a series of images of the same scene: Five Sunflowers ... Fifteen Sunflowers ... Three Sunflowers in a vase.

The series was produced in preparation for the arrival of his fellow painter Paul Gauguin. Vincent hoped to establish with him and other artists with a painters' colony in Provence. In his letter to his brother Theo Vincent 526 wrote: " In the hope that I will live with Gauguin in our own studio, I will make a series of images for it. Nothing more than a loud big sunflowers. So .. If I ausführe this plan, there will be a dozen images. The whole symphony in blue and yellow. I'm working on every morning from sunrise. After the flowers fade quickly, and the whole thing needs to be painted in a train ".

The cool background of this image removes the resulting " bright " acting sunflower remember their meaning. Also by the perfection of yellow flowers, in contrast to the simple and unassuming created environment, the image is bright and cheerful.

Van Gogh added the sunflower series in January 1889 by three other pictures (two pictures entitled Fifteen Sunflowers in a Vase and Twelve Sunflowers in a vase).

On March 30, 1987 auctioned Yasuo Gotō (后 藤 康 男; 1923-2002 ) Japanese insurance company Yasuda (now Songai Hoken Japan) at Christie's in London one of the pictures of the sunflower series to the then record price of 24.75 million pounds. The picture now hangs in the Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art in Tokyo. After the auction is a controversy about the authenticity of the image developed. The art historian Geraldine Norman, the latter taking the view that it is in the painting is a forgery of the painter Émile Schuffenecker concerns that had been entrusted in 1901 with the restoration of the original. This view has been contested by various sides. In the official results of the auction houses this is no longer being run as original paintings of van Gogh.

The images of sunflowers

During the Second World War in Japan destroyed Five Sunflowers ( August 1888 ) by fire

Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase ( August 1888 ) New Pinakothek, Munich

Fifteen Sunflowers ( August 1888 ) National Gallery, London

Twelve Sunflowers ( January 1889 ) Philadelphia Museum of Art

Fifteen Sunflowers ( January 1889 ) Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo

Fifteen Sunflowers ( January 1889 ), Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

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