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Among the many Post-Impressionist painters, Vincent Van Gogh could probably claimed that he is the only one who has inspired a mainstream pop hit song long after he’s gone. Who would not have heard of “Vincent”, the Don McLean’s song inspired by one of Van Gogh’s most popular work of art, “Starry Night“?
It is one of the most reproduced and replicated art. This famous painting was made back 1889 when Van Gogh was in the Asylum at Saint-Remy. It was said to illustrate what he saw from his small window inside his mental institution room and painted it during the day from memory. Starry Night is considered to be his greatest masterpiece, his magnum opus. Today, you can visit Museum of Art in New York City to view the original. However, our online gallery has reproduction in canvas of Starry Night if you want to purchase your own copy.
Another painting drew much controversy in the late 1980’s. Van Gogh painted a series of Sunflower paintings back in the 1888. Some of it was used to decorate his friend, another great artist, Paul Gauguin’s new studio during those times and it depicted sunflowers as the main subject of those paintings. In March of 1987, The Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers was auctioned at Christie’s and it fetched an outstanding amount of $39,921,750. A Japanese insurance tycoon bought the painting and it can be viewed at the Seiki Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo Japan. However, there was a rumor of the authenticity of the painting. There are people who insist that it just an Emile Schuffenecker forgery.
Anyway, it set a record for the highest amount for a work of art but was broken after a few months by another Van Gogh’s work entitled Irises for $53.9M at a Sotheby’s auction in New York.
Vincent Van Gogh probably did not imagine that his works would influence modern art and inspire other people in writing songs and poems long after he is gone. If he had any idea at all, I doubt that he will take his own life. While his life story is sad, his work of art spoke of beauty and so it is of no surprise at all that more and more people want a reproduction painting of all his work even up to this day. Check all our Van Gogh’s reproduction art prints in canvas.
November 16 2009 06:25 am | Canvas Art Prints