Irises

Vincent van Gogh's 'Irises' (May 1889) was painted in the first week after he entered the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where a bed of purple irises had begun to bloom in the garden. Restrained in palette and outlined with an almost Japanese-print clarity, it records a moment of recovered attentiveness in the midst of psychological crisis. In 1987 it briefly held the record as the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, and in 1990 it entered the J. Paul Getty Museum, where it remains one of the collection's best-loved works.

Exhibition Venue

The Getty Center

Los Angeles, United States

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