Homage work to Gogh addition
Released on Saturday, March 30, 2019
Isaac Israels
"Woman Standing in Front of Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'"
Around 1920 70.5*50.5cm Van Gogh Museum, the Netherlands
The Otsuka Museum of Art has created a full-scale ceramic reproduction of "Woman Standing before Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh," a painting by Isaac Israels (1865-1934), a representative Dutch Impressionist painter, and added it to its permanent exhibit on March 30, Van Gogh's birthday.
Jo, the wife of Theo, the younger brother of Van Gogh (1853-1890), lent "Sunflowers" to Israels, who was a special friend, free of charge for 3 years (1918-1920). "Sunflowers" was displayed in the living room of Israels' home in The Hague, Netherlands, where he lived at the time, and depicts a woman gazing at the painting while smoking a cigarette. It can be seen as a homage to Van Gogh, who had a great influence on him.
Van Gogh painted 7 "Sunflowers" in vases, and the one that appears in Israels' painting is said to be the 4th. The National Gallery in London purchased it from his wife Jo in 1924.
▲An exhibition room where you can see sunflowers in vases all in one place. The fourth sunflower from the left appears in Israels' painting.
Gogh work inspection (16 points) that I can appreciate in this museum
| Name of Piece | Owner | Work No | |
| 1 | Self-portrait of the straw hat | Detroit art research institute, the United States | 704 |
| 2 | Self-portrait | Musée d'Orsay, France | 705 |
| 3 | Artist's Bedroom at Arles | Musée d'Orsay, France | 707 |
| 4 | Bright starry night of the Rhone | Musée d'Orsay, France | 708 |
| 5 | Sowers | Kroller-Muller Museum, Netherlands | 709 |
| 6 | Portrait of Dr. Gachet | Musée d'Orsay, France | 710 |
| 7 | Church of Auber | Musée d'Orsay, France | 711 |
| 8 | Potato Eaters | Van Gogh Museum, the Netherlands | 1022 |
| 9 | Sunflower | Personal storehouse | 1076 |
| 10 | Sunflower | Destroyed by fire in Ashiya-shi, Hyogo in 1945 | 1075 |
| 11 | Sunflower | New Pinakothek, Germany | 1077 |
| 12 | Sunflower | The National Gallery, the U.K. | 1078 |
| 13 | Sunflower | Sompo Museum of Art, Japan | 1079 |
| 14 | Sunflower | Philadelphia Museum of Art, the United States | 1080 |
| 15 | Sunflower | Van Gogh Museum, the Netherlands | 706 |
| 16 | "The artist on the road to Tarascon" | 1945 disappearance, Germany | 1082 |
(As of March 2019)
