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Jennifer Helvey
"How well he has understood the exquisite nature of flowers!"
—Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917), French art critic and the first owner of Irises
Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, 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 Indépendants in September 1889. Its energy and theme―the regenerative powers of the earth―express the artist's deeply held belief in the divinity of art and nature.
This groundbreaking book fills a gap in Van Gogh scholarship with an in-depth study 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 Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci, Claude Monet, and Paul Gauguin.
Jennifer Helvey is an independent scholar living in Ithaca, New York. She was assistant curator in the Department of Paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum from 1996 to 2001.
208 pages
5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches
70 color and 16 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-226-4
hardcover
Getty Publications
Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum
2009
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