On May 9, 1889, the day after Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh moved into a psychiatric hospital, he began a painting of some flowers in the institution’s garden. The resulting Irises is now owned ...

Shortly after checking himself into a psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Van Gogh began painting Irises.

News Van Gogh’s “Irises” Were Never Supposed to Be Blue A new exhibition chronicles how a paintings conservator and chemist solved a color mystery in one of the painter’s most beloved works.

In a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh dated May 9, the artist wrote that he had begun painting the “violet irises” that grow on the parklike hospital grounds. Violet.

Class members decided they would like to tackle a work by Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, and one found a poster from van Gogh’s “Irises of Saint-Remy” series, painted in 1899 while ...

Vincent van Gogh’s Brilliant Blue ‘Irises’ Were Originally Purple, New Research Reveals An exhibition at the Getty Center shows that the painting’s pigment faded over many years, creating ...