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Irises  1890

by Vincent van Gogh

In May 1890, just before he checked himself out of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted four exuberant bouquets of spring flowers, the only still lifes of any ambition he had undertaken during his yearlong stay: two of irises, two of roses, in contrasting color schemes and formats. In the Museum’s Irises he sought a “harmonious and soft” effect by placing the “violet...
Size: 
73.7 x 92.1 cm
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art