Print of Vincent van Gogh - Iris II - 1889
Vincent van Gogh - Iris
Year: 1889 - oil on canvas cm 93x71
Preserved at: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Vincent van Gogh painted the Irises while being hospitalized at the hospital of San Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy.
The irises are reproduced in the foreground, allowing the observer to feel completely immersed in the painting, between the bright green of the lance-shaped leaves and the very intense purple of the flowers.
Brother Theo liked the picture of the irises very much and sent it to the annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in September 1889. Theo wrote to Vincent van Gogh stating: "Irises are a studio full of air and life."