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Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh
One of the Arles sunflower canvases, and a painting whose chrome yellow is quietly changing colour.
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 92.1 × 73 cm
- Location
- The National Gallery, London
History
What the record shows
Van Gogh painted the series to decorate the Yellow House for Gauguin's arrival.
Analysis has shown the chrome yellows are darkening under light. The National Gallery has ruled the canvas unfit to travel.
Provenance
Chain of ownership
- 01Van Gogh family collection, Amsterdam
- 02Purchased by the Tate Gallery from the artist's family, 1924
- 03National Gallery, London
