Irises

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Irises by Vincent van Gogh

The story

Irises is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Painted in 1889, the work is a landscape with a cropped composition and is one of a series of several hundred paintings that van Gogh made at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890. It has been in the permanent collection of The Getty in Los Angeles, California since 1990.

Artist
Vincent van Gogh
Date
1889
Collection
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
Movement
Post-impressionism
Medium
oil paint, canvas
Size
74.3 × 94.3 cm

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