Van Gogh planned to decorate the place with his sunflower paintings. Image credits: Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House (1888) Vincent Van Gogh's sunflowers caused a huge scandal in the 1890 Les XX ...

He approached it as an artistic muse of sorts, writing in a letter to a friend: "If [Georges] Jeannin has the peony, [Ernest] Quost the hollyhock, I indeed, before others, have taken the sunflower." ...

In August 1888, van Gogh painted four versions of sunflowers in a vase. He revisited this motif in January 1889, when he painted a repetition of the third version and two different repetitions of ...