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Canvas: 3: Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh

on BBC Two England

Canvas looks again at some of the world's most famous paintings previously seen in the series "First Eleven".

"I am painting with the rapture of a Marseillais eating bouillabaisse, which won't surprise you when you hear that the subject is sunflowers," wrote Van Gogh to his brother in 1888. He painted several versions of this picture, to hang on his bedroom wall at Arles. Today thousands of reproductions hang in homes all over the world: yet in his own lifetime Van Gogh sold only one painting.

Paul Harris looks at Sunflowers and other well-known paintings by Van Gogh, not as objects of art history but as images which relate directly to our everyday experience.

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Harris
Producer:
Leslie Megahey
Director:
Michael Dibb

BBC Two England

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