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Sunflowers, 1888
One of the first of the Sunflowers Van Gogh painted in Arles, this picture was hung in the guest bedroom of the Yellow House in preparation for welcoming Paul Gauguin to his ‘artist's home’. Although the two men disagreed on many things over the two months they lived and worked together, Gauguin greatly admired the Sunflower paintings, and later wrote to Van Gogh describing them as a ‘perfect page of an essential “Vincent” style’.
Oil on canvas
The National Gallery, London. Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1924