Certified graphic print, 50x70 cm. Numbered 40/250. Certificate, Fabriano Cotton Privilege handmade paper. Signed bottom right Vincent van Gogh. Embossed 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 within a relatively short ten-year period. Van Gogh's work was virtually unknown during his lifetime (only one painting was sold less than a year before his death). During his lifetime, Van Gogh did not receive significant recognition. However, posthumously his fame rose at a dizzying speed, especially after an exhibition in Paris in 1901, 11 years after his death.
Van Gogh's style aligns most strongly with Fauvism, Expressionism, and partly with 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. By striving to express his own feelings, he inadvertently became one of the founders of the emerging art movement called Expressionism (like Edvard Munch or Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec).
Van Gogh also used complementary contrasting colors (especially blue and orange) to enhance the beauty of each. This is where a note from one of his letters comes from: "I want to use colors that contrast with each other, so that each shines even more vividly, so that they contrast like man and woman."
