Thirty-fourth series: van Gogh’s Chair inch by inch, set of 16
When you visit museums abroad you see afresh art works you have been viewing by illustrations for too long. When I was in London last month I saw van Gogh’s Chair at the National Gallery. Amazing! This work was painted when he was working in the company of Gauguin for nine weeks in Arles. The bright yellow ladder-back chair with its cane seat was one of the twelve simple chairs he purchased when he furnished the Yellow House. The chair sits at a three-quarter view and his pipe and tobacco lie on the thatched seat. It stands on a red and orange tiled floor next to a closed turquoise blue door. A box of red onions, bursting from their wrappings, is in the corner. The colors are amazing, the characteristic icing-like impasto wonderful, and the sweet genre scene so personal. I examined the work inch by inch. And so I provide it to you in the same way. These works consist of a 3 ½ x 2 inch poly bag. I printed an image of the work at 8 x 10 inches and cut it up into 1 inch wide strips for the front image, included even finer detailed image in the center, and put a full image on verso. There is one sequin butterfly inside as a prize. I will be placing the works from April 30 and May 1 in New York City.
If you see one tell me.