File:Still Life - Vase with Five Sunflowers (destroyed) (JH 1560) - My Dream.jpg
Still Life - Vase with Five Sunflowers (destroyed) (JH 1560) - My Dream.jpg
Vincent van Gogh: Still Life: Vase with Five Sunflowers    Artist artist QS:P170,Q5582 Title English: Six Sunflowers Part of Sunflowers  Series title Sunflowers  Object type painting  Genre still life  Date 1888 date QS:P571,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 Medium oil on canvas mounted on panel, digital reconstruction Dimensions height: 69 cm (27.1 in); width: 98 cm (38.5 in) dimensions QS:P2048,69U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,98U174728 Place of creation Arles  Object history 1889 Theo van Gogh, Paris 1891 Jo Bonger, Bussum and Amsterdam Probably Bernheim jeune Art Gallery, Paris [de la Faille] 1908 Fritz Meyere-Fierz, Zurich (via C.M. van Gogh gallery, Amsterdam) £250 1920 Koyata Yamamoto, Ayisha (via Paul Vallotton gallery, Lausanne) £3,200 1945 Destroyed, Ashiya Exhibition history 1905 Amsterdam, 105 1905 Utrecht, 34 1906 Rotterdam, 32 1921 Tokyo Notes Catalogues raisonnés: F459: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 459 . JH1560 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no.  1560. Letters. Letter 666: To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 21 or Wednesday, 22 August 1888. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "3 flowers, one flower that’s gone to seed and lost its petals and a bud on a royal blue background (no. 25 canvas) [n.3 Van Gogh refers to five flowers; the sixth (below centre) was added when the painting was mounted on wood and enlarged to 98 x 69 cm. ...]" Letter 668: To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 23 or Friday, 24 August 1888. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "(One of the decorations of sunflowers on a royal blue background has a ‘halo’, that’s to say, each object is surrounded by a line of the colour complementary to the background against which it stands out) [n.7 Van Gogh may have got the concept of ‘haloing’ from Charles Blanc ...]" Destroyed by fire in 1945 (war bombing: it's thought the heavy wooden frame prevented it from being rescued in time). Image rediscovered by Martin Bailey in 2012 in a portfolio of four prints pubished in Shirakaba, Tokyo 1921, found in the archives of the Mushakoji Saneatsu Memorial Museum. See for example BBC news story. There were other images published before this and these should be retained in Commons, but the Bailey image is the best as of late 2013. References L'Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh: catalogue raisonné, F459  The New Complete Van Gogh: Fully revised and enlarged edition of the Catalogue raisonné, JH1560 http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0459.htm  Source/Photographer Photo by Szilas at the Van Gogh, My Dream Exhibition in Budapest, 2013 Permission (Reusing this file) Other versions