In August 1888, van Gogh painted four versions of sunflowers in a vase. He revisited this motif in January 1889, when he painted a repetition of the third version and two different repetitions of the ...

If sunflowers are so closely identified with van Gogh, he actually envisioned a world of flowers, with images of his interpretations of roses, peonies, poppies and orchids projected on a vase.