{"id":877,"date":"2012-07-17T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T21:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/small-vase.flywheelsites.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2016-08-24T14:40:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T20:40:54","slug":"van-gogh-gauguin-and-sunflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.vangoghgallery.com\/index.php\/en\/2012\/07\/17\/van-gogh-gauguin-and-sunflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Gogh, Gauguin and Sunflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Paul Gauguin\u2019s impending arrival, Vincent van Gogh was determined to cover the walls of <a title=\"The Yellow House\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.vangoghgallery.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/12\/the-yellow-house\/\">The Yellow House<\/a> with paintings of sunflowers. August 21, 1888 <a title=\"Van Gogh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/\">Van Gogh<\/a> wrote to his brother, Theo,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNow that I hope to live with Gauguin in a studio of our own, I want to make decorations for the studio. Nothing but big flowers. Next door to your shop, in the restaurant, you know there is a lovely decoration of flowers; I always remember the big sunflowers in the window there.<\/p>\n<p>If I carry out this idea there will be a dozen panels. So the whole thing will be a symphony in blue and yellow.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Van Gogh did not complete the dozen panels, but he did complete at least 4 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/painting\/sunflowerindex.html\" target=\"_blank\">sunflowers<\/a> in honor of Gauguin. <em>Three Sunflowers in a Vase<\/em> and <em>Still Life: Vase with Five Sunflowers<\/em> are two of those paintings.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"Van Gogh Three Sunflowers in a Vase\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/Painting\/617\/Three%20Sunflowers%20in%20a%20Vase.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/image\/0453\/Three-Sunflowers-in-a-Vase.jpg\" alt=\"Vincent's Three Sunflowers in a Vase\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"Van Gogh Still Life Vase with Five Sunflowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/Painting\/583\/Still%20Life:%20Vase%20with%20Five%20Sunflowers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/image\/0459\/Still-Life:-Vase-with-Five-Sunflowers.jpg\" alt=\"Still Life Vase with Five Sunflowers\" width=\"200\" align=\"center\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The two sunflower paintings he felt were good enough, hung in Gauguin\u2019s bedroom at The Yellow House.\u00a0<em> Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers<\/em>, a painting with a blue, or turquoise, background which is now housed in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.\u00a0 The other, <em>Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers<\/em>, has a yellow background and is now located in the National Gallery in London.\u00a0 Van Gogh later painted three versions of them.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"Van Gogh Still Life Vase with Tweleve Sunflowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/Painting\/594\/Still%20Life:%20Vase%20with%20Twelve%20Sunflowers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/image\/0456\/Still-Life:-Vase-with-Twelve-Sunflowers.jpg\" alt=\"Still Life Vase with Tweleve Sunflowers\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"Van Gogh Still Life Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/Painting\/586\/Still%20Life:%20Vase%20with%20Fifteen%20Sunflowers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/image\/0454\/Still-Life:-Vase-with-Fifteen-Sunflowers.jpg\" alt=\"Still Life Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers\" width=\"200\" align=\"center\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The sunflowers on the walls of The Yellow House must have had an impact on <a title=\"Gauguin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gauguingallery.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gauguin<\/a> as he later painted some of his own.\u00a0 While in Tahiti in 1901, Gauguin completed 4 canvases of sunflowers: <em>Still Life with Sunflowers and Mangoes<\/em>, <em>Sunflowers with Puvis de Chavannes\u2019s Hope<\/em> and two of them titled <em>Still Life with Sunflowers on an Armchair<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Letter Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"web exhibits\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webexhibits.org\/vangogh\/letter\/18\/526.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.webexhibits.org\/vangogh\/letter\/18\/526.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Paul Gauguin\u2019s impending arrival, Vincent van Gogh was determined to cover the walls of The Yellow House with paintings of sunflowers. 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