Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1889 — the canvas reproduced whole: a bed of irises in the asylum garden at Saint-Rémy, with one white iris standing alone at the left edge

Vincent van Gogh – Irises, 1889 | Giclée Print

50 × 40 cm / 19.7 × 15.7 in — Reduced, 0.45× original
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Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1889 — the canvas reproduced whole: a bed of irises in the asylum garden at Saint-Rémy, with one white iris standing alone at the left edge
  • Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1889 — the canvas reproduced whole: a bed of irises in the asylum garden at Saint-Rémy, with one white iris standing alone at the left edge
  • Van Gogh's Irises as a 80 × 60 cm giclée print, unframed, hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard
  • Detail at print size: the single white iris at the left, the crossing leaves and the ochre soil, each stroke laid separately
  • Van Gogh's Irises as a 80 × 60 cm giclée print, unframed, shown flat on white, with the small Museartis signet at the lower left
  • Van Gogh's Irises as a 50 × 40 cm giclée print, unframed, shown flat on white, with the small Museartis signet at the lower left
  • Scale diagram: the 80 × 60 cm sheet hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard, printed image area 63.8 × 50.4 cm
  • Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1889 — the canvas reproduced whole: a bed of irises in the asylum garden at Saint-Rémy, with one white iris standing alone at the left edge
  • Van Gogh's Irises as a 80 × 60 cm giclée print, unframed, hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard
  • Detail at print size: the single white iris at the left, the crossing leaves and the ochre soil, each stroke laid separately
  • Van Gogh's Irises as a 80 × 60 cm giclée print, unframed, shown flat on white, with the small Museartis signet at the lower left
  • Van Gogh's Irises as a 50 × 40 cm giclée print, unframed, shown flat on white, with the small Museartis signet at the lower left
  • Scale diagram: the 80 × 60 cm sheet hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard, printed image area 63.8 × 50.4 cm
Vincent van Gogh – Irises, 1889 | Giclée Print

Vincent van Gogh – Irises, 1889 | Giclée Print

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Van Gogh painted this in the first week after he admitted himself to the asylum at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, outside Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, in May 1889. He was not yet allowed beyond the walls, so he painted what was inside them: a bed of irises in the garden. He called painting «the lightning conductor for my illness» and worked without a preparatory drawing, straight onto the canvas.

The composition owes its flatness and its cropped edges to the Japanese woodblock prints he collected. Every plant is different — leaves crossing, bending, doubling back — and one white iris stands alone at the left edge. His brother Theo sent the painting to the Salon des Indépendants that September. Its first owner was the critic Octave Mirbeau, who wrote of how well Van Gogh had understood «the exquisite nature of flowers».

What this is. A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks from the museum's own open-access photograph of the canvas. It is not a painting and is not sold as one.

Scale
Original: 74.3 × 94.3 cm / 29.3 × 37.1 in — oil on canvas
80 × 60 cm / 31.5 × 23.6 in — reduced, 0.68× original. Image 63.84 × 50.40 cm.
50 × 40 cm / 19.7 × 15.7 in — reduced, 0.45× original. Image 42.00 × 33.16 cm.

The print
Giclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The colour of the museum's file is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.

Provenance
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890), Irises, 1889; oil on canvas, 74.3 × 94.3 cm.
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Where this comes from
The museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: the record for this sheet.

Further reading
Why This Print Is Not Bigger

The record behind this sheet — which impression we chose and why, what we measured, what we are allowed to sell, and the framing dimensions for this sheet.

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