Vincent van Gogh · 1888

Sunflowers

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One of Van Gogh's beloved still lifes, painted in Arles in a single week as a welcome for his friend Paul Gauguin.

Up to 13 × 16 in · portrait

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of Sunflowers

Sunflowers 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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the artist

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Frequently asked

Sunflowers— questions & answers

›What do Van Gogh's Sunflowers represent?

Van Gogh painted the Arles Sunflowers in 1888 to decorate the Yellow House for the arrival of his friend Paul Gauguin, and he came to associate the series with friendship and gratitude. The blazing yellow bouquets are among the most celebrated still lifes in Western art.

›How many Sunflowers paintings did Van Gogh make?

There are two series. The first, painted in Paris in 1887, shows the flowers lying on the ground; the second, made in Arles in 1888, shows bouquets of sunflowers in a vase. The Arles vase paintings survive in several versions.

›Where are Van Gogh's Sunflowers now?

The surviving Arles versions are held by major museums, including the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the National Gallery in London.

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