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This vivid dual-layer umbrella captures one of the J. Paul Getty Museum's most popular paintings: Irises, by Vincent van Gogh.

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- Length: 36 inches
- Diameter: 42 inches
- Materials: Polyester satin cloth, brass, and crystal rhinestone
- Includes fabric storage pouch
- Made in Italy
- Item #: OM500NECUWS678D

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A severe mental health crisis, in which he cut off his own ear, prompted Van Gogh to admit himself to the Saint-Paul Asylum at Saint-Rémy in the south of France. His recuperation began with paintings of the asylum garden, Irises chief among them. The close study of nature was the foundation of Van Gogh's art, as his precise delineation of individual flowers suggests, but he also brought to that study an astonishing degree of subjective intensity. We feel this in the painting's strong colors, thickly applied paint, and powerful decorative rhythms, all of which convey the artist's sense of nature's surging vitality.

Vincent van Gogh
Irises
Dutch, Saint-Remy, France
1889
Oil on canvas
28 inches x 36 5/8 inches
90.PA.20
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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