On May 9, 1889, the day after Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh moved into a psychiatric hospital, he began a painting of some flowers in the institution’s garden. The resulting Irises is now owned ...

In September 1889, art critic Félix Fénéon wrote about van Gogh's artistic skills and noted an example of the "violet patches" of the flowers in Irises.

Van Gogh paused only once, when he shifted his focus from irises to roses. It was at this juncture—after six days of silence—that he sent a progress report to his brother Theo, on May 11, 1890.

Vincent van Gogh. Born on March 30, 1853, in the rural Dutch village of Zundert, his existence was a paradox of blazing ...

In May 1889, after episodes of self-mutilation and hospitalization, Vincent van Gogh chose to enter an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. There, in the last year before his death, he created almost ...

Irises was painted in May 1889, in the garden of the Asylum of Saint-Paul-de- Mausole in Saint-Remy, the mental institution van Gogh entered voluntarily.

They mapped the decay of colour in Van Gogh's Field with irises at Arles, which he completed in 1888. It is thought to be the first of a series of paintings of irises that he completed while at an ...

Irises is, without doubt, one of Van Gogh's most iconic paintings. It was painted in 1889, a year before the artist's death, while he was confined to an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence in ...

The Van Gogh irises that brighten refrigerator magnets and wrap around coffee mugs are sweet. But they don't compare to the real deal, unveiled Friday morning at the Minneapolis Institute of Art ...

In May 1889, after episodes of self-mutilation and hospitalization, Vincent van Gogh chose to enter an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. There, in the last year before his death, he created almost ...