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266 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 18 September 1882.
in translation:
...of a courtyard with a bleaching ground and sunflowers. It’s splendid outdoors. The leaves are...
576 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, December 1887.
in note 2:
...du Chalet in November-December 1887 (see letter 640), Van Gogh exchanged his Sunflowers gone to seed (F 375 / JH 1329) and Sunflowers gone to seed (F 376 / JH 1331) for Gauguin’s On the shore of the lake...
640 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in note 8:
In this exchange Gauguin acquired Sunflowers gone to seed (F 375 / JH 1329) and Sunflowers gone to seed (F 376 / JH 1331): see letter 576, n. 2.
644 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, between Tuesday, 17 and Friday, 20 July 1888.
in sketch A:
...roofs, black cypress, oleander and fig tree, sunflowers). Each line is preceded by a bracket...
653 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
in translation:
...and also scabious, dark violet, and red geraniums and sunflowers and a fig tree and oleander and a...
in note 11:
For Gauguin’s On the shore of the lake, Martinique, which Van Gogh exchanged for Sunflowers gone to seed (F 375 / JH 1329) and Sunflowers gone to seed (F 376 / JH 1331), see letter 576, n. 2.
657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
in translation:
...to me, the best of the three large ones. The one with the sunflowers is the little garden of a bathhouse.
665 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 21 August 1888.
in translation:
...my studio with half a dozen paintings of Sunflowers. A decoration in which harsh or broken yellows...
...but anyway, I console myself by reconsidering the sunflowers. I shake your hand firmly; more soon...
in date note:
...Sunflowers and thistles are also mentioned in letter 666, but there Van Gogh refers to a letter he had had from Gauguin, which is not mentioned in this one. Letter 666 must therefore have been written after the present one (though probably not long after), so we have dated it Tuesday, 21 or Wednesday, 22 August. Letter 667 was enclosed with 666 and has consequently been given the same date. In letter 668 there is no further mention of the thistles and Van Gogh is working on a fourth painting of sunflowers...
in note 9:
...1888, starting with a series of paintings of sunflowers. He bore in mind the possibility that this...
666 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 21 or Wednesday, 22 August 1888.
in translation:
...eating bouillabaisse, which won’t surprise you when it’s a question of painting large Sunflowers.
...to do a decoration for the studio. Nothing but large Sunflowers. Next door to your shop, in the...
...two unstamped consignments. When I’ve finished these sunflowers I’ll perhaps be short of yellow...
in note 2:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 453 / JH 1559). Van Gogh is mistaken about the size: the work measures 73 x 58 cm...
in note 3:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 459 / JH 1560). Van Gogh refers to five flowers; the sixth (below centre) was added...
in note 4:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561). See Dorn 1999, p. 49; Van Tilborgh and Hendriks 2001, p. 22, on the...
667 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 21 or Wednesday, 22 August 1888.
in translation:
At the moment I’m working on a bouquet of 12 sunflowers in a yellow earthenware pot, and have a plan to decorate the whole studio with nothing but sunflowers...
...together all over Provence. I’m busy with my sunflowers, and in fact can think of nothing to say...
in note 2:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561). See Dorn 1999, pp. 49; Van Tilborgh and Hendriks 2001, p. 22, on the...
668 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 23 or Friday, 24 August 1888.
in translation:
...urgent. I’m now on the fourth painting of sunflowers. This fourth one is a bouquet of 14 flowers...
...your hand firmly. (One of the decorations of sunflowers on a royal blue background has a ‘halo...
in additional details:
...in letter 669 (about his fourth painting of sunflowers and the Manet at the Drouot). Dorn rejected this...
in note 2:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562). In this identification we are following Van Tilborgh and Hendriks...
in note 6:
Besides the work referred to in n. 2, Van Gogh means the three paintings that he said he was working on in letter 666: Sunflowers in a vase (F 453 / JH 1559), Sunflowers in a vase (F 459 / JH 1560) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561).
in note 7:
The painting in question is Sunflowers in a vase (F 459 / JH 1560). Van Gogh wrote ‘soleils’ (suns) rather than ‘tournesols’ (sunflowers); cf. for the association of sunflowers, sun and the south of France, and in connection with this choice of words: Dorn 1990, pp. 116-117. Van Gogh may have got the concept of...
669 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.
in translation:
...sunflowers are progressing; there’s a new bouquet of 14 flowers on a green-yellow background, so it’s exactly the same effect — but in larger format, no. 30 canvas — as a still life of quinces and lemons that you already have, but in the sunflowers the painting is much simpler...
in note 1:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562). See letter 668, n. 2, for the number of flowers.
in note 4:
...letter 668, n. 7. Van Gogh had used this technique in his painting Sunflowers in a vase (F 459 / JH 1560).
670 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.
in translation:
...prepared especially a painting all in yellow of sunflowers (14 flowers) in a yellow vase and...
in note 11:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562). See letter 668, n. 2, for the number of flowers.
in note 12:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561). See Dorn 1999, pp. 49; Van Tilborgh and Hendriks 2001, p. 22, for...
674 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 4 September 1888.
in translation:
...you in a week or ten days. Including the sunflowers, I still have about fifteen new studies here...
in note 8:
Van Gogh had made four paintings of sunflowers: F 453 / JH 1559, F 459 / JH 1560, F 456 / JH 1561 and F 454...
677 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 September 1888.
in translation:
...comes, will have a decoration of large yellow sunflowers on its white walls. Opening the window in...
...these big paintings of bouquets of 12, 14 sunflowers stuffed into this tiny little boudoir with a...
in note 8:
Van Gogh had done four paintings of sunflowers in the last week of August: F 453 / JH 1559, F 459 / JH 1560...
678 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888.
in translation:
...Japanese do, especially the huge bouquets of sunflowers. You know that the Japanese instinctively...
in note 3:
Van Gogh had intended Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562), no. 30 canvases, for Gauguin’s room. See letters 677 and 743. Later he added the four pictures of the...
683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in translation:
...facing the house. Then the two cafés. Then the sunflowers. Then Boch’s portrait, and mine. Then the red...
...I’ve already sent, but the ones of the sunflowers and the bars and the gardens, those I’d like...
in note 6:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 453 / JH 1559), Sunflowers in a vase (F 459 / JH 1560), Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562).
687 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
in translation:
...furnishing has cost. I wanted to do more sunflowers too, but they were already over. Yes, during...
689 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 26 September 1888.
in note 10:
At this point Van Gogh in any event counted the two no. 30 canvases of sunflowers, Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562), as part of this series, which he intended for the decoration of the Yellow House; see letter 677. He probably also regarded the paintings for which he was having...
703 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 13 October 1888.
in translation:
...30 canvases for the decoration. 2 canvases of sunflowers 3 ,, poet’s garden 2 ,, other garden 1...
in note 9:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562).
704 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 15 October 1888.
in note 9:
...in his last letter (letter 703). Besides the five new canvases (n. 8) they were Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561), Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562), The public garden (‘The poet’s garden’) (F 468...
713 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 27 October 1888.
in note 4:
...in the same room as the laughable vase of sunflowers by Mr Vincent, or by any other agent...
715 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 29 October 1888.
in translation:
...he really does like, namely, the Sower, the Sunflowers, the Bedroom. And the whole thing, I don’t...
in note 3:
Van Gogh must be referring here to the two no. 30 canvases of sunflowers that he had earmarked for his decoration: Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562). Cf. letter 703.
721 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 19 November 1888.
in translation:
...that he’d seen a painting by Claude Monet of sunflowers in a large Japanese vase, very fine. But...
in note 15:
Claude Monet, Bouquet of sunflowers, 1881 (New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Ill. 300. Gauguin...
in note 16:
Gauguin’s remark undoubtedly referred to the recent paintings of sunflowers from Arles, particularly the two no. 30 canvases that were hanging in his room: Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562). After his departure Gauguin wanted to have the latter canvas. See letter 739.
723 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 1 December 1888.
in note 6:
Paul Gauguin, Van Gogh painting sunflowers, 1888 (W326/W296) (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 115.
734 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, between Tuesday, 8 and Wednesday, 16 January 1889.
in translation:
your sunflowers on a yellow background which I regard as a perfect page of an essential ‘Vincent...
in note 1:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562). See Van Tilborgh and Hendriks 2001, p. 21. It emerges from letter...
735 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 9 January 1889.
in note 17:
...Gauguin’s possession (and not Gauguin’s Van Gogh painting sunflowers, as assumed in De brieven 1990).
736 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 17 January 1889.
in translation:
...quite odd that he’s claiming a painting of sunflowers from me, offering me in exchange I suppose...
...canvases here, and I’m categorically keeping those sunflowers of mine. He already has two of them...
...his part both my portrait and my two canvases of sunflowers which he took in Paris. So if he ever...
in note 12:
...Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562), the ‘sunflowers on a yellow background’ which is also mentioned in letter 739. It had been hanging – together with its pendant, Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) – in Gauguin’s room in Arles (letter 743). Van Gogh did not want to trade F 454 for the studies Gauguin had left behind, and suggested making a repetition as a compromise (letter 739). He had intended the first two versions of the sunflowers for Theo (letter 741). A short while later he made repetitions of both works: Sunflowers in a vase (F 455 / JH 1668) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 458 / JH 1667) for the purpose of exchanging them with Gauguin (letters 743 and 745). He had meanwhile decided that the four versions of sunflowers would serve as the wings of two triptychs, each with a Berceuse in the middle. This is why he wanted to exchange a Berceuse with Gauguin (see letter 748), with the idea that Gauguin would then have an entire triptych. Later he wrote to Theo that Gauguin was allowed to have the Berceuse, but should offer work in exchange for the sunflowers (see letter 776). Gauguin did in fact receive a Berceuse, but apparently not the sunflowers. See Van Tilborgh and Hendriks 2001, pp. 24-25. On the basis of their provenance, it can be stated that none of the versions of the sunflowers was ever in the possession of Gauguin. See Dorn 1999, pp. 60-61. At the end of April or beginning of May 1889, Van Gogh sent Theo the studies Gauguin had left behind (see letter 765...
in note 13:
In Paris Van Gogh had traded his Sunflowers gone to seed (F 375 / JH 1329) and Sunflowers gone to seed (F 376 / JH 1331) for Gauguin’s On the shore of the lake, Martinique; see letter 576, n. 2. At the end of...
739 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Monday, 21 January 1889.
in translation:
...in your letter about a canvas of mine, the sunflowers with a yellow background — to say that it...
in note 3:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562).
in note 4:
...Lister 2001, p. 72.A short while later Van Gogh made repetitions of both Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562), which had been hanging in Gauguin's room, in order...
740 To Arnold Koning. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 22 January 1889.
in translation:
...this summer, two flower-pieces with nothing but Sunflowers in a yellow earthenware pot. Painted...
in note 9:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562).
741 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 22 January 1889.
in translation:
...s worth that, then I dare assure you that my sunflowers are also worth 500 francs to one of those...
...But you can exhibit the two canvases of sunflowers there if you wish. Gauguin would be pleased to...
in note 4:
Van Gogh no doubt means ‘the two canvases of sunflowers’ mentioned later in the letter: Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562). They were hanging in Gauguin’s room in the Yellow House, and Vincent assumed that Theo had seen them during his visit to Arles (see letter 743).
in note 11:
Gauguin had set his heart on Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562); see letter 739.
743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.
in translation:
...Gauguin’s room the two no. 30 canvases of the sunflowers. I’ve just put the finishing touches to the...
...these canvases precisely between those of the sunflowers – which thus form standard lamps or...
in note 1:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562).
in note 2:
The repetitions are Sunflowers in a vase (F 455 / JH 1668) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 458 / JH 1667). See Van Tilborgh and Hendriks 2001, p. 22.
in note 6:
...Sunflowers. These formed two triptychs: one for Theo and one for Gauguin. Van Gogh says they number ‘7 or 9’ canvases, because he intends in any case to paint another Berceuse for Holland (ll. 49-51), which would bring the total up to 7, possibly followed by two more canvases of sunflowers, giving rise to a third triptych. A few days later he did indeed have a third version of the Berceuse (see letter 745). Whether or not Van Gogh, when mentioning the number 7, actually intended to hang the three Berceuses (B) with sunflowers (S) on either side – in the order S B S B S B S – is unclear. For another suggestion, see Dorn 1990, p. 306...
744 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 30 January 1889.
in translation:
...came I had just finished the repetition of my sunflowers, and I showed him the two examples of the...
in note 2:
The repetitions are Sunflowers in a vase (F 455 / JH 1668) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 458 / JH 1667); the earlier versions are Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562).
745 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 3 February 1889.
in translation:
...Gauguin, who has a complete infatuation with my sunflowers, take these two paintings from me, that...
in note 8:
The repetitions made for Gauguin were Sunflowers in a vase (F 455 / JH 1668) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 458 / JH 1667). See letter 736, n. 12.
748 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 25 February 1889.
in note 4:
...consisting of the Berceuse flanked by the repetitions of the sunflowers); see also letter 736, n. 12.
751 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 22 March 1889.
in note 2:
...500 / JH 1659), Blue gloves and a basket of oranges and lemons (F 502 / JH 1664), Sunflowers in a vase (F 455 / JH 1668), Sunflowers in a vase (F 458 / JH 1667) and three versions of Augustine Roulin (‘La...
765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
in translation:
...bush and oleanders ditto cedar and geraniums Sunflowers flowers: Scabious &c. ditto: asters and...
in note 29:
...stretching frames, as he did the canvases of sunflowers that had also hung in Gauguin’s room and...
in note 32:
...Sunflowers in a vase (F 455 / JH 1668) and F 457 / JH 1666 ‘worthy of being put on stretching frames’ (l. 158). The first two versions, F 456 / JH 1561 and F 454 / JH 1562, were indeed in the consignment but cannot be the paintings in question because they were already framed with strips of wood and thus already on stretching frames (see letter 776). Sunflowers in a vase (F 458 / JH 1667) must have been sent on a stretching frame too; Van Gogh had enlarged the composition by adding a strip of wood to the canvas (see Hendriks et al. 2019). This means that the painting could not be taken off the stretching frame anymore. The consignment probably also included F 453 / JH 1559 and F 459 / JH 1560; see letter 774, n. 7...
767 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 2 May 1889.
in note 1:
...Sunflowers in a vase (F 455 / JH 1668), Sunflowers in a vase (F 457 / JH 1666), ‘Scabious &c’ and ‘asters and marigolds’ (possibly Zinnias in a majolica jug (F 592 / JH 1568); see letter 765, n. 34). In the present letter Van Gogh mentions a ‘garden that’s in the walnut frame’ (l. 52), so that painting, The public garden (‘The poet’s garden’) (F 468 / JH 1578) (see n. 7 below) was also in the consignment (cf. also letter 777). The consignment contained four versions of Augustine Roulin (‘La berceuse’), namely F 504 / JH 1655, F 506 / JH 1670, F 507 / JH 1672 and F 508 / JH 1671, as well as Joseph Roulin (F 436 / JH 1675), Sower with setting sun (F 450 / JH 1627), Marcelle Roulin (F 441 / JH 1641), Starry night over the Rhône (F 474 / JH 1592) and Van Gogh’s chair (F 498 / JH 1635). See letter 774. It is likely that Gauguin’s chair (F 499 / JH 1636) was sent together with its pendant F 498 (cf. letter 736). In addition to the two previously mentioned canvases with sunflowers...
774 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 21 May 1889.
in translation:
...with the tree, the baby, the starry night, the sunflowers and the chair with the pipe and the...
in note 7:
This consignment definitely contained the two paintings of sunflowers intended for Theo, Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562), and the repetitions for Gauguin (F 455 / JH 1668 and F 458 / JH 1667). See letters 741, 743 and 776. The canvases of sunflowers F 453 / JH 1559, F 459 / JH 1560 and F 457 / JH 1666 also came into Theo’s possession and are therefore likely to have been in this...
776 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 23 May 1889.
in translation:
...But if Gauguin wants sunflowers it’s only absolutely fair that he gives you something that you like as much in exchange. Gauguin himself above all liked the sunflowers later, when he had seen them...
...in the middle and the two canvases of the sunflowers to the right and the left, this forms a sort...
...frame is then the red one. And the two sunflowers that go with it are those surrounded by strips of...
in sketch A:
Triptych with La berceuse and two versions of Sunflowers in a vase (F - / JH -), letter sketch
in note 5:
Van Gogh wanted Gauguin to have the two repetitions: Sunflowers in a vase (F 455 / JH 1668) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 458 / JH 1667). See letter 745.
in note 6:
Van Gogh says that the paintings of sunflowers are framed with strips of wood; these were the first two versions of Sunflowers in a vase, which had hung in Gauguin’s room in the Yellow House and were intended for...
783 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 25 June 1889.
in translation:
...do something with them like the canvases of the sunflowers because it astonishes me that no one has...
in note 9:
...767) contained the following paintings of sunflowers: F 453 / JH 1559, F 459 / JH 1560, F 454 / JH...
792 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 16 July 1889.
in translation:
...ll probably invite Bernard as well. People generally like the Night effect and the Sunflowers. I’ve put one of the Sunflowers on the mantelpiece in our dining room. It has the effect of a piece of...
in note 8:
...See Delevoy 1981, pp. 197 ff. Van Gogh exhibited six works: ‘Tournesols’ (Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561)), ‘le lierre’ (Trees with ivy in the garden of...
in note 10:
Theo probably means Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561), which Vincent found suitable to exhibit (see, for example, letter 741).
in note 11:
The version of the sunflowers that hung above the fireplace at Theo and Jo’s (and later on, in Jo’s...
801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889.
in translation:
...Have you seen that portrait he did of me painting sunflowers? My face has lit up after all a lot...
in note 19:
For Gauguin’s Van Gogh painting sunflowers, see letter 723, n. 6.
805 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 20 September 1889.
in translation:
...noticed the darkish huts of goatherds, where sunflowers bloomed. The olive trees with white cloud...
806 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 28 September 1889.
in translation:
...ll do a personal impression of it, the way the sunflowers are for yellows. If only I’d had some...
in note 22:
Van Gogh is referring to the five paintings of sunflowers made in Arles. On this subject, see letter 783, n...
818 Octave Maus to Vincent van Gogh. Brussels, Friday, 15 November 1889.
in sketch B:
...The canvases are Orchard in blossom with a view of Arles (F 516 / JH 1685), Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561), Trees with ivy in the garden of the asylum (F 609...
819 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 16 November 1889.
in translation:
...the more recent things. The portrait of Roulin, The sunflowers etc. You must tell me what you think...
in note 10:
Theo must be referring to Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561), which Vincent thought suitable to be exhibited (see, for example, letter 741).
820 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 19 November 1889.
in translation:
1 and 2 the two pendants of sunflowers...
in note 2:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561). Van Gogh considered these two versions suitable to be exhibited; the two repetitions (F 455 and F 458) were intended for Gauguin. See...
821 To Octave Maus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 20 November 1889.
in translation:
No 1 Sunflowers...
in note 2:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562).
in note 3:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561).
825 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 8 December 1889.
in translation:
...for Brussels. I’ve ordered frames. For the Sunflowers I’m leaving the little wooden edge that...
in note 5:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561). Van Gogh had framed these works himself with strips of wood; see letter 776, n. 6.
827 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 December 1889.
in translation:
I’m planning to send to Brussels sunflowers, a completely red vineyard in the autumn, an orchard in...
in note 5:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561).
830 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 22 December 1889.
in translation:
...to see your Olive trees. They can be beautiful. The Sunflowers were on show at Tanguy’s this week...
in note 20:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561). Van Gogh intended to submit these two canvases to the exhibition of Les Vingt (see letter 820, n. 2).
850 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 1 February 1890.
in translation:
...say, with more reason, what he says about my sunflowers about Quost’s magnificent and so-complete...
...us, to do beautiful things. When I’d done those sunflowers I was seeking the contrary and yet the...
in note 6:
...sunflowers: ‘And also this obsessional passion for the solar disc, which he loves to make shine in the blaze of his skies, and, at the same time, for that other sun, that vegetable star, the magnificent sunflower, which he paints over and over, without wearying, like a monomaniac; how are we to explain it if we refuse to acknowledge his persistent preoccupation with some vague and glorious heliomythic allegory?’ (Et aussi cette obsédante passion pour le disque solaire qu’il aime à faire rutiler dans l’embrasement de ses ciels et, en même temps, pour cet autre soleil, pour cet astre végétal, le somptueux tournesol, qu’il répète, sans se lasser, en monomane, comment l’expliquer si on refuse d’admettre sa persistante préoccupation de quelque vague et glorieuse allégorie héliomythique?) (p. 28). Aurier must be referring primarily to Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561), which were shown at the exhibition of Les Vingt in Brussels. He could also have seen the other three paintings of sunflowers at Theo’s or Tanguy’s; with regard to this, see letter 783, n. 9...
853 To Albert Aurier. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 or Monday, 10 February 1890.
in translation:
...ask of you. Supposing that the two canvases of sunflowers that are presently at the Vingtistes have...
in note 14:
Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561).
in note 15:
This remark about the sunflowers as a symbol of gratitude must be seen in the context of Van Gogh’s idea to have his Berceuse flanked by two canvases of sunflowers, just as Icelandic fishermen had in their cabins...
854 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 12 February 1890.
in translation:
...wants he can take the repetitions of the Sunflowers and the repetition of the Berceuse in exchange...
in note 7:
...time at the exhibition of Les Vingt in Brussels. ‘Les Tournesols’ is either Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562) or Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561), which were also shown at the exhibition of Les Vingt...
in note 16:
These repetitions are Sunflowers in a vase (F 455 / JH 1668) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 458 / JH 1667). Gauguin never got these works. It can be inferred from this passage that both works were at Theo’s; this...
858 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 19 March 1890.
in note 11:
...these loud, sonorous, disorderly paintings, the Sunflowers, the Ivy, and especially the Red vineyard at...

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Publication history / The early publications of the letters
...a Symbolist print inspired by Van Gogh’s Sunflowers for the cover of the accompanying catalogue...

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Vincent van Gogh, The Letters