Four Cut Sunflowers
by GOGH, Vincent van, Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm
Catalogue numbers: F 452, JH 1330.
This large-format painting of cut sunflowers are based on two small-format studies depicting two cut sunflowers, one displays two withered sunflower heads from the front (F 376) while in the other the head right is reversed (F 375). It draws on compositional elements of those studies and the stylisations that they developed, the “pointill�” texture of the first, and the “glac�” highlighting of the second, which it intensifies.