4 Incredible Facts About Masterpieces

Still life: twelve sunflowers in a vase, 1889

Two cut sunflowers, 1887

Thanks to Paul

Gauguin liked Van Gogh's sunflowers

Paul Gauguin self-portrait

So 4 still lifes with "Sunflowers" in vases were created. Paul Gauguin appreciated them. And he predicted that they would be the hallmark of his friend. And so it happened.

In the summer of 1888 Van Gogh arrives in Arles. Here, for the joint development of a new direction, he invites several artists. Only Paul Gauguin agrees to come. Van Gogh is so grateful to him that he decides to decorate his room with still lifes with sunflowers.

Paul Gauguin self-portrait

Gauguin

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Paul Gauguin

Van Gogh's "Sunflowers"

Potato eaters. 1885 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Van Gogh began to work in gloomy colors, but after meeting Monet, Renoir, Degas Van Gogh abruptly changed colors from gloomy to light and bright. That's why he liked yellow so much. And sunflowers too.

Sunflowers

is a fake?

Scandal erupted in 1997

Experts have suggested that the third author's copy of "Sunflowers" stored in Japan is a fake. There were more than enough facts pointing to fake.

Experts were very embarrassed why this painting ended up in the hands of the artist Emil Schuffenecker after the death of the artist. All other Sunflowers went to the brothers. In addition, Schuffenecker was convicted of creating paintings in the style of Van Gogh. Some of these paintings were "exposed".

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