Vincent William Van Gogh was a great artist who created many still life themed paintings. One such painting is Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers where the artist portrayed a picture of vase with a bunch of sunflowers. Vincent Van Gogh was a post impressionist Dutch artist especially popular for creating many expensive art pieces. Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers is one such expensive painting.
Van Gogh's Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers:
Based on a still life theme, Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers is an oil painting which was created by Van Gogh in August 1888, while he was living in Arles, France. Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers was created in a spectacular series by the Dutch artist. This series includes similar paintings of fifteen sunflowers in a vase, and two similar paintings with twelve sunflowers in a vase. The painting was painted on 93 × 72 cm (37" × 28") canvases. Van Gogh started working on this painting in August 1888 and completed it the following year. The painting depicts the illustration of sunflowers passing through several stages of life, beginning with full blooming to withering out. The artist brilliantly produced it in several shades and hues. The painting is regarded especially for its innovative nature, which significantly highlights the use of the yellow spectrum, as well as the newly invented use of colors.
Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, Auction:
In the year 1987, Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers was auctioned in an event held at Christie's London organized by the daughter in law of Chester Beatty. Yasuo Goto a Japanese insurance tycoon paid a huge amount of $ 7 1.8 for the series of sunflower paintings, setting a record price for Van Gogh paintings. After its purchase many controversies evoke on such issues as if the painting is the real Van Gogh creation or just a forgery by Emile Schuffenecker. At present the painting is kept in the Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. This oil work was done on a canvas 100.5 x 76.5 cm.
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