Irises: Vincent van Gogh in the Garden

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Jennifer Helvey "How well he has understood the exquisite nature of flowers!" —Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917), French art critic and the first owner of Irises Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, where he was recuperating from an attack of mental illness. Although he considered the painting more a study than a finished picture, his brother Theo submitted it to the Salon des Indépendants in September 1889. Its energy and theme―the regenerative…