Vincent van Gogh - Sunflowers

Van Gogh's paintings of sunflowers are among his most famous works. He painted them in 1888 and 1889 in Arles, in the south of France. Vincent painted a total of five large canvases of sunflowers in a vase, using three shades of yellow "and nothing else". In this way he demonstrated that it is possible to create a painting with numerous variations of a single color without losing eloquence.

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