Van Gogh's Sunflowers Illuminated2019

This book is entirely devoted to the research performed over the years into Van Gogh's Sunflowers, an icon of Western European art.0Vincent van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' are seen by many as icons of Western European art. Two of these masterpieces he first version painted in August 1888 (The National Gallery, London) and the painting made after it in January 1889 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) have been the subject of a detailed comparison by an interdisciplinary team of experts. The pictures were examined in unprecedented depth using a broad array of techniques, including state-of-the-art, non-invasive imaging analytical methods, to look closely at and under the paint surface. Not only the making, but also the subsequent history of the works was reconstructed, including later campaigns of...