"Who painted ""'Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers’ in 1888?"
Sunflowers (Van Gogh series) part of the painted "Décoration for the Yellow House" that he prepared for the guestroom of his home in Arles, where Gauguin was supposed to stay. After Gauguin's departure, van Gogh imagined the two major versions as wings of the "Berceuse Triptych", and finally he included them in his Les XX in Bruxelles exhibit. Little is known of Van Gogh's activities during the two years he lived with his brother, Theo, in Paris, 1886–1888. The fact that he had painted "Sunflowers" already is only revealed in the spring of 1889, when Gauguin claimed one of the Arles versions in exchange
Sunflowers (Van Gogh series) when Vincent had just finished the first repetitions of the "Berceuse" and the "Sunflowers" pendants, he told Theo: "I picture to myself these same canvases between those of the sunflowers, which would thus form torches or candelabra beside them, the same size, and so the whole would be composed of seven or nine canvases." A definite hint for the arrangement of the triptych is supplied by Van Gogh's sketch in a letter of July 1889. Later that year, Vincent selected both versions for his display at Les XX, 1890. Van Gogh began painting in late summer 1888 and continued into