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

On May 8, 1889, Vincent Van Gogh checked himself into the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence following a period of intense emotional instability. ... Vincent van Gogh, Irises (1889).

On May 8, 1889, painter Vincent van Gogh checked himself into a psychiatric hospital near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, during a major mental health crisis. The hospital director, Théophile ...

The flowers in van Gogh’s “Irises” (1889), which was the most expensive painting sold at auction at the time when it fetched $53.9 million at Sotheby’s in 1987, were never supposed to be ...

In May 1889 Van Gogh painted Irises, a close-up view of flowers in the garden of an asylum.He had come to this retreat on the outskirts of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence after mutilating his ear ...

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.

The original colour of Van Gogh’s irises is also confirmed by a review by the critic Félix Fénéon in September 1889. Referring to Irises , he wrote about the “violet patches” of the ...

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 ...

Van Gogh’s Cypresses Previews May 16; opens May 22-Aug. 27, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., 212-535-7710; metmuseum.org. Deborah Solomon is an art critic and biographer who is ...

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 ...