# Irises, in 19th-century Netherlands

Vincent van Gogh painted this in 1890, aged 37. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A great bouquet of irises bursts from a vase, the flowers twisting in every direction against a pale background. Van Gogh painted the still life in May 1890, in his last days at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, as one of a pair of iris paintings exploring contrasts of colour.

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## The work

- Date: 1890
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 29 x 36 1/4 in. (73.7 x 92.1 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 58.187
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Vincent van Gogh](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/vincent-van-gogh), Dutch, 1853–1890

Van Gogh worked as an art dealer, teacher and lay preacher before he turned to art in 1880, at twenty-seven. His early pictures of Dutch peasants are dark and heavy; in Paris from 1886 he met the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists, and his palette brightened.

14 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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