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Irises

by Vincent van Gogh

Created in 1890

Vincent van Gogh painted a number of flower still lifes during his last weeks at the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy. For him, the painting was a study in colour and contrast. He did so by placing the purple-blue flowers against a yellow background. Van Gogh spoke of 'an effect of terribly disparate complementaries that reinforce each other by their opposition'.

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