ISBN 978-0-89236-511-1

He produced works of art using subject matter as wide ranging as sea shells

and all who wish to heighten their enjoyment of this classical art

This book is an excellent resource for art teachers

Centre Louis Gernet

Irises: Vincent van Gogh in the Garden SPE24 ISBN 978-0-89236-511-1Jennifer Helvey "How well he has understood the exquisite nature of flowers!" Octave Mirbeau (18481917), 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 Rmy, 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 Indpendants in