Vincent van Gogh painted five Sunflower paintings in 1888 to welcome his friend Gauguin to the South of France. The artists lived and worked together for part of the year, but the venture ended unhappily, to say the least, when van Gogh famously entered an asylum after mutilating his own ear.
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers are surely among the most recognisable and reproduced paintings in the world: but this is a rare opportunity to see two of the originals side by side. One belongs to the National Gallery; the other is loaned by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
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Suzanne Valadon’s shifting gaze