Bouquet of Sunflowers

Claude Monet, Garden at Vétheuil, 1881, oil on canvas, 39 ½ x 32 in. (Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena)

Claude Monet, Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers, 1880, oil on canvas, 39 3/16 x 28 3/4 in. (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Vincent van Gogh, Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers, 1888, oil on canvas, 93 x 73 cm (National Gallery, London)

Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers in a Vase, 1888, oil on canvas, 91 x 71 cm (Neue Pinakothek, Munich)

Bouquet of Sunflowers

Bouquet of Sunflowers
1881
Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny)
Oil on canvas
39 3/4 x 32 in. (101 x 81.3 cm)
Classification:Paintings
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

In November 1888, Van Gogh wrote: "Gauguin was telling me the other day—that he’d seen a painting by Claude Monet of sunflowers in a large Japanese vase, very fine. But—he likes mine better. I’m not of that opinion." Critics had earlier praised the "brio and daring" of Monet’s technique when he showed this still life, depicting sunflowers that grew along the pathway to his garden at Vétheuil, at the 1882 Impressionist exhibition.　
Location Metropolitan Of Art