The Painter of Sunflowers The Painter of Sunflowers The Painter of Sunflowers (in French: Le Peintre de Tournesols) is a portrait of Vincent van Gogh by Paul Gauguin in December 1888. The painting is exhibited at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The portrait was painted when Gauguin visited Van Gogh in Arles, France. Vincent had pleaded with Gauguin to come to Arles to start an art-colony. Gauguin eventually agreed after funding for the transportation and expenses was provided by Vincent's brother Theo Van Gogh; however Gauguin only stayed for two months as the two often quarreled and the famous incident where Van Gogh
Van Gogh Museum van Gogh. The main exhibition chronicles the various phases of Van Gogh's artistic life. His selected works from Nuenen (1880–1885): His selected works from Antwerp (1886): His selected works from Paris (1886–1888): His selected works from Arles (1888–1889): His selected works from Saint-Rémy (1889–1890): And his selected works from Auvers-sur-Oise (1890): The permanent collection also includes nine of the artist's self-portraits and some of his earliest paintings dating back to 1882. The museum also features notable art works by Van Gogh's contemporaries in the Impressionist and post-Impressionist movements and holds extensive exhibitions on various subjects from 19th Century art history.