A Masterpiece Examined.

Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, which he completed in the southern French town of Arles in 1888 and 1889, are among his most famous paintings. In radiant shades of yellow, he created five large still lifes featuring vases of sunflowers, which now hang in museums all over the world. This book focuses on the version of Sunflowers in the Van Gogh Museum’s collection – a masterpiece that has been studied in recent years by an international team of more than thirty sc...

De zonnebloemen-schilderijen behoren tot de bekendste werken van Vincent van Gogh. Hij maakte ze in Arles, in Zuid-Frankrijk, in 1888 en 1889. In stralende tinten geel schilderde hij vijf grote stillevens van zonnebloemen in een vaas, die nu in musea over de hele wereld hangen. In dit boek staat Zonnebloemen uit de collectie van het Van Gogh Museum centraal. Het meesterwerk is onderzocht met de nieuwste technieken, om erachter te komen welke materialen Van Gogh gebruikte, wat de conditie van ...

This book is entirely devoted to the research performed over the years into Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, an icon of Western European art.

Vincent van Gogh’s *Sunflowers* are seen by many as icons of Western European art. Two of these masterpieces – the first version painted in August 1888 (The National Gallery, London) and the painting made after it in January 1889 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) – have been the subject of a detailed comparison by an interdisciplinary team of experts. The pict...