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Image: Vincent van Gogh, 'Sunflowers', 1888
Room 43
Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh
Paintings in this room
![Curtain, jug and dish of fruit](/media/f1fl04t4/l-1345-00-000002-hd.jpg?cc=0.15639600891516625,0.031212268743914397,0.07205751672585949,0.03121226874391418&width=576&height=576&v=1daddc37b8f48c0&bgcolor=fff)
In the early 1890s, Cezanne repeatedly painted the same set of objects in the isolation of his studio – fruit, dishes, cloths, and a water jug – to render them from different perspectives and interrogate their formal properties. In this picture, Cezanne introduces subtle effects of distortion to...
![In the Bibémus Quarry](/media/zsyn00by/l-1330-00-000001-hd.jpg?width=576&height=576&v=1d9a297108a49c0&bgcolor=fff)
In the 1890s and early 1900s, Cezanne painted numerous views of the Bibémus Quarry. Situated not far from Aix-en-Provence, the site was renowned since Antiquity for its yellow-ochre limestone. But while the artist was mesmerised by the quarry’s chromatic qualities, he also had personal and intell...
![Lake Keitele](/media/34758/n-6574-00-000061-hd.jpg?cc=0.10613083695858455,0,0.181050108841967,0.0881994776396129&width=576&height=576&v=1d6544ad2fc46f0&bgcolor=fff)
This painting shows Lake Keitele in central Finland. The zigzag pattern on the water’s surface is a natural occurrence caused by the interaction of the wind with the lake’s currents, but it is also intended to evoke the wake created by Väinämöinen, the poet-hero of the Finnish saga Kalevala, as h...
![A Wheatfield, with Cypresses](/media/34074/n-3861-00-000045-hd.jpg?cc=0.19177372685185185,0.0000000000000001263187085796,0.012392939814814855,0&width=576&height=576&v=1d65443fc9b8180&bgcolor=fff)
Van Gogh painted several versions of A Wheatfield, with Cypresses during the summer of 1889, while he was a patient in the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Paul de Mausole, in the village of St-Rémy in the south of France. A first version, which he described as a study, was painted on site in late J...
![Landscape with Ploughman](/media/qgnbvrni/l-1333-00-000001-hd.jpg?width=576&height=576&v=1d9e2608eb2f190&bgcolor=fff)
Van Gogh painted this view from his window at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, following a severe epileptic attack which had prevented him from painting. Typical of his work at this date, the scene is based on direct observation but is laden with personal meaning. The hardworking ploughman, tilling the...
![Portrait of Adeline Ravoux, the Innkeeper’s Daughter](/media/tyxjma05/l-1340-00-000003-hd.jpg?rxy=0.5274502757971672,0.22380326663805666&width=576&height=576&v=1da971e22340ae0&bgcolor=fff)
The daughter of the innkeeper at the Café de la Mairie in Auvers, where Van Gogh spent the final ten weeks of his life, Adeline Ravoux was only 12 years old when she sat for this portrait by Van Gogh. As is common in Van Gogh’s late works, the shape and texture of his individual brushstrokes are...
![Sunflowers](/media/34076/n-3863-00-000126-hd.jpg?cc=0,0,0,0.21343711593609177&width=576&height=576&v=1d65444021a5dc0&bgcolor=fff)
This is one of five versions of Sunflowers on display in museums and galleries across the world. Van Gogh made the paintings to decorate his house in Arles in readiness for a visit from his friend and fellow artist, Paul Gauguin.‘The sunflower is mine’, Van Gogh once declared, and it is clear tha...
![Van Gogh's Chair](/media/34075/n-3862-00-000042-hd.jpg?cc=0.027260526757255495,0.016346610254514678,0.029105854722362011,0.2480559282923249&width=576&height=576&v=1d65443ff5d87b0&bgcolor=fff)
This painting of a simple chair set on a bare floor of terracotta tiles is one of Van Gogh’s most iconic images. It was painted in late 1888, soon after fellow artist Paul Gauguin had joined him in Arles in the south of France. The picture was a pair to another painting, Gauguin’s Chair (Van Gogh...
![The Kien Valley with the Bluemlisalp Massif](/media/qkmf3sir/n-6695-00-000010-hd.jpg?rxy=0.5157480428140884,0.17771135282312167&width=576&height=576&v=1da8ce7c83dac70&bgcolor=fff)
A native of Berne, Switzerland, Ferdinand Hodler spent much of 1902 in the Oberland painting mountainous landscapes. This work shows the Kien Valley looking towards the Bluemlisalp, a massif at the far end of the valley. During his artistic retreats in the Alps – not so different, in spirit, from...
![Late Afternoon in our Meadow](/media/35508/n-6689-00-000005-hd.jpg?width=576&height=576&v=1d690e6c45941b0&bgcolor=fff)
In 1884 Pissarro settled with his family in the village of Eragny. He painted a number of views of this meadow which is planted with small trees still surrounded by their protective cages. It is late afternoon and the long shadows thrown by the trees radiate out in a fan shape towards the left co...
![The Boulevard Montmartre at Night](/media/34182/n-4119-00-000024-hd.jpg?cc=0.072916666666666671,0,0.10520833333333353,0.0000000000000001263187085796&width=576&height=576&v=1d8663ba135f080&bgcolor=fff)
This is one of 14 views of the Boulevard Montmartre in Paris that Camille Pissarro painted in 1897. These include the boulevard seen in snow, rain, fog, mist and sunlight, and in the morning, afternoon, at sunset and at night. The picture is the only example of a night painting by Pissarro.Pissar...
![Coastal Scene](/media/34767/n-6582-00-000026-hd.jpg?cc=0.075135091145833333,0,0.096739908854166709,0&width=576&height=576&v=1d6544ae96baf70&bgcolor=fff)
This cool, elegant painting explores the quality of light on water – how it moves, how it reflects and, towards the base of the picture, how it glows. The clouds are hardly reflected in the water: it seems as if the light has slipped under them to illuminate the vast, still stretch of almost tide...
![Bathers at Asnières](/media/34102/n-3908-00-000103-hd.jpg?cc=0.42243387963102774,0.062886729566100585,0.011674882014927872,0.079566958168891366&width=576&height=576&v=1d6544443d3c670&bgcolor=fff)
This large picture was Seurat’s first major composition, painted when he had not yet turned 25. He intended it to be a grand statement with which he would make his mark at the official Salon in the spring of 1884, but it was rejected.Several men and boys relax on the banks of the Seine at Asnière...
![The Channel of Gravelines, Grand Fort-Philippe](/media/x22bby5b/n-6554-00-000018-hd.jpg?width=576&height=576&v=1da8f3711b37dc0&bgcolor=fff)
This is one of four paintings Seurat produced in 1890 near the town of Gravelines, a small port on the northern French coast between Calais and Dunkirk. Positioned on the sand dunes of Petit-Fort-Philippe, we see the shore in the morning light after the receding tide has left a broad expanse of o...
![High Tide](/media/ogbibv53/l-1334-00-000006-hd.jpg?cc=0.16268710385071422,0.13226700886821424,0.17309518091749776,0.13226700886821424&width=576&height=576&v=1da9d5504515130&bgcolor=fff)
Jan Toorop was a Dutch-Indonesian artist, born to a Dutch father and Chinese-Indonesian mother. After travelling to the Netherlands as a young boy, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1883, where he met many influential artists such as James Ensor and Théo van Rysselberghe.Toor...
![Woman seated in a Garden](/media/34201/n-4186-00-000013-hd.jpg?cc=0,0.10240325865580448,0,0.1155193482688391&width=576&height=576&v=1d8663d26207850&bgcolor=fff)
This young woman seated in a garden is thought to be a dancer and model who we know only as Gabrielle. She appears in two other pictures by Toulouse-Lautrec.Although Toulouse-Lautrec worked mainly as a graphic artist and printmaker, and is perhaps best known for his posters advertising venues suc...