Sunflowers

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Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh
Production Date Unknown

This is a very interesting reproduction of the famed Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh. I purchased it and completed it in the early 2000s. I don't remember the brand (Ravensburger?), but it's interesting as it is a real painting that has been cut into a puzzle. I framed it and it's been hanging in my home for more than 20 years.

From the van Gogh Museum:

Van Gogh’s paintings of Sunflowers are among his most famous. He did them in Arles, in the south of France, in 1888 and 1889. Vincent painted a total of five large canvases with sunflowers in a vase, with three shades of yellow ‘and nothing else’. In this way, he demonstrated that it was possible to create an image with numerous variations of a single colour, without any loss of eloquence.

The sunflower paintings had a special significance for Van Gogh: they communicated ‘gratitude’, he wrote. He hung the first two in the room of his friend, the painter Paul Gauguin, who came to live with him for a while in the Yellow House. Gauguin was impressed by the sunflowers, which he thought were ‘completely Vincent’. Van Gogh had already painted a new version during his friend’s stay and Gauguin later asked for one as a gift, which Vincent was reluctant to give him. He later produced two loose copies, however, one of which is now in the Van Gogh Museum.