Still Life with Two Sunflowers

Vincent van Gogh

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Work Overview

Still Life with Two Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1887; Paris, France *
Style: Post-Impressionism
Genre: still life
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 61 x 43 cm


Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Paris) is the subject of many drawings, sketches and paintings by Vincent van Gogh in 1886 and 1887 after he moved to Montmartre in Paris from the Netherlands. While in Paris, Van Gogh transformed the subjects, color and techniques that he used in creating still life paintings.
Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.
The two Sunflowers in question show two buttons each; one of them was preceded by a small study, and a fourth large canvas combines both compositions.
These were Van Gogh's first paintings with "nothing but sunflowers"—yet, he had already included sunflowers in still life and landscape earlier.