GOGH, Vincent van
(b. 1853, Groot Zundert, d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise)

Four Cut Sunflowers

August-September 1887, Paris
Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

Catalogue numbers: F 452, JH 1330.

This large-format painting of cut sunflowers are based on two small-format studies depicting two cut sunflowers, one displays two withered sunflower heads from the front (F 376) while in the other the head right is reversed (F 375). It draws on compositional elements of those studies and the stylisations that they developed, the "pointillé" texture of the first, and the "glacé" highlighting of the second, which it intensifies.




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