In August 1888, Van Gogh painted four Sunflower still-lifes in the Yellow House in Arles. The last two are famous—the 14 flowers on a turquoise background (now in Munich) and the 15 flowers on a ...

When Gauguin arrived in the fall, he found his room decorated with Van Gogh’s artworks, including a painting of sunflowers arranged in a ceramic vase against a yellow background. The two-month ...

Among that collection was the “sunflowers on a yellow background”. After lending it to the Dutch artist Isaac Israels, who used it as a backdrop in his studio paintings, Johanna eventually ...