Thread by @m_ashcroft

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together" – Vincent Van Gogh

This is a thread of all of Vincent's paintings of sunflowers. 🌻

First series: The Paris Sunflowers

Sunflowers, study (F377), Oil on canvas, 21 x 27 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Sunflowers (F375), Oil on canvas, 43.2 x 61 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sunflowers (F376), Oil on canvas, 50 x 60.7 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Bern

Sunflowers (F452), Oil on canvas, 60 × 100 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Second Series: The Arles Sunflowers

Sunflowers (F453), first version: turquoise background
Oil on canvas, 73.5 × 60 cm
Private collection

Sunflowers (F459), second version: royal-blue background
Oil on canvas, 98 × 69 cm
Formerly private collection, Ashiya, Japan, destroyed by US air raid of World War II on 6 August 1945

Sunflowers (F456), third version: blue green background
Oil on canvas, 91 × 72 cm
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Sunflowers (F454), fourth version: yellow background
Oil on canvas, 92.1 × 73 cm
National Gallery, London, England

Sunflowers (F455), repetition of the 3rd version
Oil on canvas, 92 × 72.5 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States.

Sunflowers (F458), repetition of the 4th version (yellow background)
Oil on canvas, 95 × 73 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Sunflowers (F457), replica of the 4th version (yellow green background)
Oil on canvas, 100 × 76 cm
Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

all images and summaries taken from Wikipedia here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower…