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Catalog Level:
item
Type:
painting
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Classification
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Terms:
paintings
European
art
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Titles or Names
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Irises
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Type: repository
Language: English
Text:
Les Iris
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Language: French
Text:
Piante di iris
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alternate
Language: Italian
Text:
Die Irisse
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Language: German
Text:
Irysy
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Language: Polish
Text:
Irissen
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Language: Dutch
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Creation
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Creator Description:
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890, active in France)
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Identity: Gogh, Vincent van
Role: painter
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Creation Date:
1889
Earliest:
1889 Latest:
1889
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Creation Place/Original location: Saint
Rémy de Provence (Provence Alpes Côte
d'Azur, France)
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Style/Period/Group/ Movement
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Indexing Terms: Impressionist
Post
Impressionist
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Measurements
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Dimensions Description: 71 x 93 cm
(28 x 36 5/8 inches)
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Value: 71 Unit: cm Type:
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Value: 93 Unit: cm Type:
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Materials and Techniques
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Description: oil on canvas, applied
with brush and palette knife
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Material Name: oil paint Role:
medium
Material Name: canvas Role: support
Technique Name: impasto
Technique Implement: palette knife
Technique Implement: brush
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Inscriptions/Marks
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Transcription or Description: signed
lower right: Vincent
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Subject Matter
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Indexing Terms:
botanical
nature
irises
regeneration
soil
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Descriptive Note
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Text: This work was painted when the
artist was recuperating from a severe attack of mental
illness; it depicts the garden at the asylum at Saint
Rémy. The cropped composition, divided into
broad areas of vivid color with monumental irises
overflowing the borders of the picture, was probably
influenced by the decorative patterning of Japanese
woodblock prints. There are no known drawings for
this painting; Van Gogh himself considered it a study.
His brother Theo recognized its quality and submitted
it to the Salon des Indépendants in September
1889, writing to Vincent of the exhibition: "[It]
strikes the eye from afar. It is a beautiful study
full of air and life."
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Citation: J. Paul Getty Museum. Handbook
of the Collections. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty
Museum, 1991.
Page: 129
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Current Location
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Repository Name/Geographic Location:
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California, United
States)
Repository Numbers:
90.PA.20
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Exhibition/Loan History
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Exhibition Title or Name: Salon des
Indépendents of 1889
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Date: September 1889
Earliest: 1889-09-01 Latest:
1889-09-30
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