The Sunflowers by nico,fara,ciao

THE SUNFLOWERS

Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painterVincent van Gogh. The earlier series executed in Paris in 1887 depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set executed a year later in Arles shows bouquets 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 to 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. After Gauguin's departure, Van Gogh imagined the two major versions as wings of the Berceuse Triptych, and finally he included them in his Les XX in Bruxelles exhibit.


I Girasoli sono una serie di dipinti ad olio su tela realizzati tra il 1888 e il 1889 dal pittore Vincent Van Gogh. Tra i soggetti preferiti dal pittore, sono oggi tra le sue opere più riconoscibili e note presso il grande pubblico.