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Painting · 1888

Sunflowers

Vincent van Gogh · National Gallery, London

Palette

• Flax #D9C678 · 42% · your word: Khaki
• Dark goldenrod #B4922C · 23% · your word: Mustard
• Bistre brown #9F7425 · 15% · your word: Ochre
• Golden brown #896228 · 12% · your word: Brown
• Olive #88893F · 6% · your word: Olive
• Dark olive green #656D48 · 3% · your word: Hunter green

Painted in Arles in August 1888; it then hung in the guest room Van Gogh got ready for Gauguin. He called it a picture all in yellow, and wrote that his sunflowers used the three chrome yellows, yellow ochre and Veronese green and nothing else. Notice the range inside that one color: from a pale greenish yellow background to mustard and brown in the seed heads. Chrome yellow is light-sensitive; research on the Amsterdam repeat of this picture found parts of it already darkening.

Image

Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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