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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > French Painting > Van Gogh - Gauguin > Sunflowers
Sunflowers

Date : 1887

Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1949)
Post-Impressionnistes
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Van Gogh - Gauguin
Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture - First Floor
Item 17 on 21
French Painting
Painting (Nature morte)

Area related
Paris (France)
Site related :
Van Gogh



Description   

Van Gogh painted four still lifes of sunflowers in Paris in late summer 1887. There is a small oil sketch for this canvas. The fascination for the subject culminated in 1888 with the series of Sunflowers that he painted to decorate his studio in Arles.
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