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Wallet featuring Van Gogh's - Irises by Gabs Italy

Gabs was founded in 2000 by designer Franco Gabbrielli in Florence, Italy.  His family tradition and experience within the leather goods industry dates back to the 1970s.

This wallet includes a zip closure, multiple card slots, inside compartment for bank notes, and coin pocket.

- Dimensions of bag: 7.5 inches x 0.8 inch x 4.3 inches
- Materials: Leather outer with cotton interior lining
- Made in Italy
- Item #: 140NDF6167

In May 1889, after episodes of mental illness, Vincent van Gogh chose to enter an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. There, in the last year before his death, he created almost 130 paintings. Within the first week, he began Irises, working from nature in the asylum's garden. The cropped composition, divided into broad areas of vivid color with monumental irises overflowing its borders, was probably influenced by the decorative patterning of Japanese woodblock prints. Each iris painted by Van Gogh is unique. He carefully studied their movements and shapes to create a variety of curved silhouettes bounded by wavy, twisting, and curling lines. The painting's first owner, French art critic Octave Mirbeau, one of Van Gogh's earliest supporters, wrote: 'How well he has understood the exquisite nature of flowers!'

Vincent van Gogh 
Irises
Dutch, Saint-Rémy, France, 1889 
Oil on canvas 
28 in. x 36 5/8 in.
90.PA.20
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles