Certified graphic print, 50x70 cm. Numbered 33/250. Certificate, handmade Fabriano Cotton Privilege paper. Signed in the lower right Vincent van Gogh. Blind stamp S.P.A.D.E.M. Paris. Numbered in pencil
About the author:
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman. He is one of the greatest figures in world fine art. Van Gogh created approximately 900 paintings and 1100 drawings in a relatively short period of ten years. Van Gogh's work was virtually unknown during his lifetime (only one painting was sold less than a year before his death). During his life, Van Gogh did not achieve significant recognition. After his death, however, his fame rose at an astonishing rate, especially after an exhibition in Paris in 1901, 11 years after his death.
Van Gogh's style fits most prominently among the Fauvists, Expressionists, and partly also early abstraction. With his innovative approach to reality, he changed the perception of traditional Impressionist painting and significantly influenced the first half of the 20th century from an artistic perspective. His will to express his own feelings inadvertently made him one of the founders of the emerging artistic branch called Expressionism (like Edvard Munch or Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec).
Van Gogh also used complementary contrasting colors (especially blue and orange) to emphasize the beauty of each. Hence a note from one of his letters: "I want to use colors that contrast with each other, so that each of them shines even more brightly, to contrast like a man and a woman."
