When Are Sunflowers On Display At The Van Gogh Museum?

Vincent van Gogh, a renowned painter, created flower still lifes in the late 1880s and 1890s. He chose sunflowers as his preferred variety, as they were considered coarse and unrefined by his fellow painters. Van Gogh painted five large canvases of sunflowers in Arles, France, between 1888 and 1889. The famous Sunflowers is part of a series of sunflower paintings, which began with four still lifes in Paris in late summer 1887.

The Sunflowers display, from 25 January to 27 April 2014, celebrated the National Gallery’s long friendship with the Van Gogh Museum, which generously lent its Sunflowers to hang beside the Gallery’s version. This painting is one of five versions of Sunflowers on display in museums and galleries worldwide, although Van Gogh painted seven versions between 1888 and 1889. One of the seven is in a private art festival.

On 2 June 2023, it was exactly 50 years since the Van Gogh Museum first opened its doors, featuring tens of thousands of sunflowers from Takii. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicted flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, made a year later in Arles, showed a bouquet of sunflowers.

One of the world’s most famous paintings, Sunflowers, has been carefully investigated, explored, and restored for Van Gogh and the artist. The sunflower labyrinth, open on September 5 and 6, 2015, features 125,000 sunflowers, singer-songwriters, fanart, and a new entrance.