Irises — Vincent van Gogh
Irises — Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh, 1890. Painted in 1890, in the last months of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Rémy. The blue is doing something strange and lovely against that pink ground — it is the piece people stand in front of longest.
What arrives
- Printed on canvas and set in a wooden frame — not a poster, not paper behind glass.
- Made to order after you buy it, then shipped worldwide. Nothing sits in a warehouse fading.
- Three sizes, from a piece that suits a hallway to one that takes a wall.
About the image
- Reproduced from the museum's own high-resolution scan of the original painting — not a photograph of a poster.
- Original held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Adele R. Levy, 1958
- Public domain. Free to reproduce, which is the only reason a canvas like this can cost what it does.
Good to know
Screens are backlit and canvas is not. Colours read slightly deeper and softer on the wall than they do here — that is true of every print ever sold, and it is usually an improvement. Sizes are the framed dimensions. This painting is wider than it is tall, and the sizes below match its proportions almost exactly.
Finish the wall
The self-portrait from Paris, and two from the asylum garden at Saint-Rémy in the last year of his life. They share the same proportions, so they take the same frame size and hang in a clean row.
