{"product_id":"vase-with-twelve-sunflowers-bookmark","title":"Vase with Twelve Sunflowers Bookmark","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eVan Gogh painted his sunflowers in Arles in August 1888, in a burst of work — several canvases in a single week — to decorate the guest room of the Yellow House before Paul Gauguin arrived. He wanted his friend to walk into a room full of yellow. \"I have the sunflower, in a way,\" he wrote to his brother Theo, and he was right: no other painter has ever owned a flower quite so completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis bookmark takes a detail from \u003cem\u003eVase with Twelve Sunflowers\u003c\/em\u003e, all thick golden petals and rust-brown seed heads against a pale turquoise ground. The original hangs in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, with Van Gogh's own later repetition of it in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Seeing it cropped close like this is a good reminder of just how loaded his brush was — you can practically feel the paint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAt 48 × 162mm with a turquoise ribbon marker that picks up the background, it lies flat in any book. A small, genuinely lovely gift for an art lover, a gallery-goer, or anyone whose reading pile deserves better than a folded corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCome and see the full Museums \u0026amp; Galleries range in the shop — there's always more on the shelves than we can fit online.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDetail from \u003cem\u003eVase with Twelve Sunflowers\u003c\/em\u003e by Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGolden sunflowers against a pale turquoise ground\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTurquoise ribbon marker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e48mm × 162mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuseums \u0026amp; Galleries, the British art-stationery publisher behind the V\u0026amp;A, Tate, Natural History Museum and British Museum ranges\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlat enough to post inside a greetings card\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerfect for art lovers, gallery-goers, book club gifts and stocking fillers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFAQ\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDoes the design show the whole painting?\u003c\/strong\u003e No — it's a close-up detail of the sunflowers themselves, which suits the long, narrow shape of a bookmark.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhich painting is it?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eVase with Twelve Sunflowers\u003c\/em\u003e, painted by Van Gogh in Arles in 1888 as part of the decoration for the Yellow House.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhere is the original?\u003c\/strong\u003e The 1888 canvas is in the Neue Pinakothek, Munich; Van Gogh's own later version of it is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat colour is the ribbon?\u003c\/strong\u003e Turquoise.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat size is the bookmark?\u003c\/strong\u003e 48mm wide by 162mm tall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Museums \u0026 Galleries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56529701699962,"sku":"GBM465","price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/8187\/4234\/files\/22782-64dcb8d7-da28-4c31-a5ca-4ad4cc88496f.jpg?v=1790498122","url":"https:\/\/wrapped.shop\/products\/vase-with-twelve-sunflowers-bookmark","provider":"Wrapped!","version":"1.0","type":"link"}