O n May 9, 1889, the day after Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh moved into a psychiatric hospital, he began a painting of some ...

Vincent van Gogh's “Irises” (1889) was painted during his stay in a psychiatric clinic after he suffered a mental breakdown. (all images courtesy Getty, unless otherwise noted) Success!

On May 8, 1889, Vincent Van Gogh checked himself ... The inclination that Van Gogh’s irises were once violet stems from words of the artist himself. In a May 9 letter to his brother, Theo ...

On May 8, 1889, painter Vincent van Gogh checked himself into a psychiatric ... the artist wrote that he had begun painting the “violet irises” that grow on the parklike hospital grounds.

In Vincent’s letter to his brother Theo of 9 May 1889 he describes the colour of the irises as “violet”. (This letter will be in the Getty exhibition, as an important loan from the Van Gogh ...

he painted views of the fields outside his iron-barred bedroom window and studied blue irises in the garden. Image “Wheat Field With Cypresses,” June 1889. Van Gogh unchained the cypress ...

In 1889, Vincent van Gogh committed himself to a psychiatric asylum in Southern France, where he spent a turbulent year creating roughly 150 paintings, including masterpieces such as “Irises ...

The Bronx garden transforms into a walkable Van Gogh masterpiece, complete with towering sunflowers This summer, the New York ...

It’s also assumed that the creation was done while van Gogh was at the ... hospital between May 1889 and May 1890 and there painted 150 canvases, including Irises (1889), The Starry Night ...

The Dutch painter began Irises in 1889 on his first full day at a psychiatric hospital. Getty Museum On May 9, 1889, the day after Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh moved into a psychiatric hospital ...