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
Japonaiserie (Van Gogh) and his brother Theo dealt in these prints, and they eventually amassed hundreds of them, now housed in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. In a letter to Theo dated about 5 June 1888 Vincent remarks A month later he wrote, Van Gogh's interest in Japanese "ukiyo-e" prints dates from his time in Antwerp when he was also immersing himself in Delacroix's theory of colour and where he used them to decorate his studio. During his subsequent stay in Paris, where "Japonisme" had become a fashion influencing the work of the Impressionists, he began to collect "ukiyo-e" prints and eventually to