As did other people. After he died, friends brought sunflowers with them to his funeral. Sunflowers became synonymous with Vincent, just as he had hoped. Richard Roland.
Van Gogh became an artist at the age of 27. Within 10 years (1880-1890), he had produced nearly 900 paintings and 1,100 works on paper. For him, his art was a.
In June 1889, Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo: “The cypresses still preoccupy me, I’d like to do something with them like the canvases of the sunflowers.
During his time in Paris in 1887, Van Gogh painted four sunflower still lifes: two paintings simply titled Sunflowers, an oil painting study titled Sunflowers Gone to Seed, and Four.
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers (January 1889), sold for £24m ($40m) at Christie’s, London, 30 March 1987. Just scraping into the top ten, Sunflowers sold in 1987, when.
It was purchased by an unidentified private collector from a New York dealer in 1996 for an undisclosed sum. The last time it was exhibited was in 1948 when the.