Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Remy, where he was recuperating from an attack of mental illness.Although he considered the painting more a study than a finished picture, his brother Theo submitted it to the Salon des Independants in September 1889.The artist's deeply held belief in the divinity of art and nature. This groundbreaking book fills a gap in Van Gogh scholarship of Irises, among the J. Paul Getty Museum's most famous paintings' placed in the context of his glorious flower and garden paintings.Full-color reproductions include not only Irises, but also a panoply of nature paintings by Van Gogh and the artists who inspired him, such as Albrecht Drer, Leonardo da Vinci, Claude Monet, and Paul Gauguin.
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