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Yellow was important to Van Gogh in Arles

AI-generated imaginary paint box and sunflowers, symbolic editorial cover; not Van Gogh’s studio.
Vincent van Gogh, *Sunflowers* (August 1888), National Gallery, London, NG3863; faithful reproduction, Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_van_Gogh_-_Sunflowers_(1888,_National_Gallery_London).jpg. Reused from fact 1289.
photograph of artist oil-paint tubes by Viktor Fiala, 2010; public domain worldwide. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olejove_barvy.jpg. Reused from fact 1289; these are not Van Gogh’s own paint tubes.
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AI-generated imaginary paint box and sunflowers, symbolic editorial cover; not Van Gogh’s studio.

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Yellow was especially important to Vincent van Gogh during his time in Arles, in southern France. In the 1888 Sunflowers series he deliberately explored shades of yellow, but that does not mean yellow dominates all his paintings: in many works he combined it with blue, green, and other colors.