In addition, one account from the 19th century claimed that van Gogh's irises were purple. In September 1889, art critic Félix Fénéon wrote about van Gogh's artistic skills and noted an example ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Van Gogh: Irises and Roses is on display though August 16. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) brought his work in Provence to a close with exuberant ...

The flowers in van Gogh’s “Irises” (1889), which was the most expensive painting sold at auction at the time when it fetched $53.9 million at Sotheby’s in 1987, were never supposed to be ...

The Van Gogh irises that brighten refrigerator magnets and wrap around coffee mugs are sweet. But they don't compare to the real deal, unveiled Friday morning at the Minneapolis Institute of Art ...

Art & Exhibitions Van Gogh’s ‘Irises’ Appear Blue Today, But Were Once More Violet, New Research Finds. A new show at Getty Center in L.A. will spotlight its latest analysis of the painting.

At least one other 19th-century account claims van Gogh’s irises were purple: In September of 1889, art critic Félix Fénéon wrote of van Gogh’s abilities as a colorist, exemplified by the ...

In a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh dated May 9, the artist wrote that he had begun painting the “violet irises” that grow on the parklike hospital grounds. Violet. It’s a small but ...

Irises (May 1889), which was probably the first painting done by Van Gogh at the asylum, has had an unusually chequered recent history.In 1987 it sold at Sotheby’s for $54m ($150m in today’s ...

In 1889, Vincent van Gogh committed himself to a psychiatric asylum in Southern France, where he spent a turbulent year creating roughly 150 paintings, including masterpieces such as “Irises ...

Researchers at the J Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Conservation Institute claim that Van Gogh’s irises were originally violet, not blue.

The everyday objects Vincent van Gogh used in his paintings were indeed everyday and therefore disposable but their identification provides clues to Van Gogh’s working methods and even changed the ...