Both are in the possession of the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, established 1962 by Vincent Willem van Gogh, the artist's nephew, and on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Five other versions are recorded in the Van Gogh estate papers: the final Paris version (F.
How much is 'Sunflowers' worth? When Van Gogh's own copy of the original version went on auction at Christie's, as much as 40 million dollars was paid to purchase it. Taking into account inflation, this painting would have cost $100m. It was purchased by Tokyo-based Yasuda insurance company.
This means that Van Gogh's paintings are now a part of the public domain. While that is true, any reproductions or photographs of his paintings will still come under the copyright laws. So, if any museum were to photograph its paintings, they would hold the copyright of those photographs.
“It is a matter of public record that Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Company purchased the Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers work at public auction from Christie's in London in 1987,” the company employee added, noting that, for the past 35 years, the painting has been on display at the Sompo Museum of Fine Art in Tokyo.
Vincent van Gogh | Sunflowers | NG3863 | National Gallery, London.
One is owned by the National Gallery and the other by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and both are among the most popular paintings they own.
Vincent van Gogh painted seven sunflower pictures in Arles, France, between 1888 and 1889: four were painted in one week of August 1888, one in late November — early December 1888 and two in January 1889. Together, the seven Sunflowers produced by Van Gogh make up one of the most famous series of works in art history.
On March 30th, 1987, at Christie's London, Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh sold for £24.75 million ($39.9 million) to the Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Company.
Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers painting should be returned to the family of its former owner by Sompo Holdings Inc., the Japanese insurer that bought the famous artwork despite its tainted Nazi-era past, according to a lawsuit filed by the heirs.
Vincent van Gogh died with no money because he was not a well-known artist at the time of his death. His brother, Theo, provided him with financial support for many years.
The author died in 1890, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.
Portrait of Dr Paul Gachet still holds the record for the most expensive Van Gogh, although it sold as long ago as 1990. At Christie's it fetched $83m, then the highest auction price for a work by any artist. With inflation, it would be equivalent to $180m today.
Today, Van Gogh's works are among the world's most expensive paintings to have ever sold, and his legacy is honoured by a museum in his name, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds the world's largest collection of his paintings and drawings.
Sunflowers is a powerful painting. Using just three tints of yellow 'and nothing else', Van Gogh achieved a glorious harmony of colours. The simple motif also profoundly appeals to a lot of people.
The Portrait of Dr. Paul Gachet (1890) is the Van Gogh painting that sold for the highest price out of the artist's entire collection of works. It sold for a record-breaking $83 million in 1990.
Vincent Van Gogh's self-portrait sold for $71.5 million in 1990 and is one of the most valuable artworks today with an estimated worth of over $120 million.
The painting was completely unharmed (only the frame was damaged by the stunt), but the visceral impact of seeing a priceless artwork splattered with soup was intended to attract media outrage and attention. In a statement, one of the activists, Phoebe Plummer, said: "Is art worth more than life?
The painting, one of several versions of “Sunflowers” that Van Gogh painted in the late 1880s, was cleaned and returned to its place in the National Gallery on Friday afternoon.
Many people believe that 'The Red Vineyard' that Vincent Van Gogh painted near Arles, in November 1888, is the only painting that the artist managed to sell while he was alive. It was bought by Anna Boch for 400 francs.
The Red Vineyard is among Van Gogh's most dramatically coloured Provençal landscapes, but it is also famed for being the only painting that the artist is certain to have sold. It went for 400 francs (then £16) at a Brussels exhibition in March 1890, four months before his suicide.
CAPTION: Vincent van Gogh painted "White Roses," now worth as much as $80 million, in 1890, just before he was to be released from an asylum.
Estimated Value
Another prominent sunflower painting by Van Gogh is Vase with fifteen flowers, which sold for approximately $39.7 million in 1987. Later on, the Van Gogh Sunflowers price was revised and deemed to be worth $84.2 million.
This one's easy: no, Vincent didn't have any children.
Alongside van Gogh's use of yellow in “Sunflowers,” the artist also features green, orange, and a touch of red and blue.