Vincent van Gogh

Irises

1889
74.3 × 94.3 cm (29.3 × 37.1 in)

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Mei-Lin Chen · 13d

He painted this in the asylum garden during his first week there. One white iris in a crowd of blue ones. I do not think that was an accident.

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Walter Greene · 12d

I always read the white one as him. Maybe that is too easy. But some paintings invite you to be too easy about them.

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