The Dutch painter began Irises in 1889 on his first full day at a psychiatric hospital. Getty Museum On May 9, 1889, the day after Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh moved into a psychiatric hospital, he ...

On May 8, 1889, painter Vincent van Gogh checked himself into a psychiatric hospital near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, during a major mental health crisis. The hospital director, Théophile Peyron, ...

In May 1889 Van Gogh painted Irises, a close-up view of flowers in the garden of an asylum. He had come to this retreat on the outskirts of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence after mutilating his ear, following a ...

A fragment of pine pollen found within Van Gogh’s Irises has helped locate the place where the flowers flourished, at the back of the walled garden in the asylum where the artist stayed for a year.

'Irises' is, without doubt, one of Van Gogh's most iconic paintings. It was painted in 1889, a year before the artist's death, while he was confined to an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence in Southern ...

Official word that Van Gogh`s ”Irises,” the most expensive painting in the world, is again for sale has sparked renewed debate in the art world over what the masterpiece is actually worth, and whether ...

The Van Gogh irises that brighten refrigerator magnets and wrap around coffee mugs are sweet. But they don't compare to the real deal, unveiled Friday morning at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.