It's our state flower. I just love them, they brighten any room!

late summer love to watch them bloom I always go searching for a field near home so I could take lots of photos :) <3

Wish I had the money to buy the original.. *sighs*

Watered outside are looking good. They are grown and need lots of water. They are so gorgeous and always make my day!

Just found a site that I can buy a print from: :)
www.squidoo.com/vincent-van-gogh-sunflowers-prints-posters

Just picked up a huge bouquet from my florist ... Gorgeous!!

Sunflowers and the Van Gogh myth
On March 31, 1987, even those without interest in art were made aware of van Gogh's Sunflowers series when Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto paid the equivalent... more

Sunflowers and the Van Gogh myth
On March 31, 1987, even those without interest in art were made aware of van Gogh's Sunflowers series when Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for Van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London, at the time a record-setting amount for a work of art. The price was over four times the previous record of about $12 million paid for Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi in 1985. The record was broken a few months later with the purchase of another Van Gogh, Irises, by Alan Bond for $53.9 million at Sotheby's, New York on November 11, 1987.

Sunflowers, friendship and gratitude
In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh wrote:
"It is a kind of painting that rather changes in character, and takes on a richness the longer you look at it... more

Sunflowers, friendship and gratitude
In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh wrote:
"It is a kind of painting that rather changes in character, and takes on a richness the longer you look at it. Besides, you know, Gauguin likes them extraordinarily. He said to me among other things - 'That...it's...the flower.' You know that the peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is somewhat my own."

Sunflowers, friendship and gratitude
Van Gogh began painting in late summer 1888 and continued into the following year. One went to decorate his friend Paul Gauguin's bedroom. The paintings show... more

Sunflowers, friendship and gratitude
Van Gogh began painting in late summer 1888 and continued into the following year. One went to decorate his friend Paul Gauguin's bedroom. The paintings show sunflowers in all stages of life, from full bloom to withering. The paintings were considered innovative for their use of the yellow spectrum, partly because newly invented pigments made new colours possible.

As Van Gogh anticipated in 1889, the Sunflowers finally became his, and served—combined with self-portraits—as his artistical arms and alter ego up to the present day: no retrospective Van Gogh... more

As Van Gogh anticipated in 1889, the Sunflowers finally became his, and served—combined with self-portraits—as his artistical arms and alter ego up to the present day: no retrospective Van Gogh exhibition since 1901 voluntarily missed including them, and a wealth of forgeries as well as record-setting price paid at auction acknowledges their public success: Perhaps, because Van Gogh's Sunflowers are more than his or him—they may be considered, as Gauguin put it, the flower.....

I would love to own this Vincent Van Gogh painting...It currently hangs in the National Gallery in London....guess I will just have to settle for buying a print.. :)

Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The earlier series executed in Paris in 1887 gives the... more

Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The earlier series executed in Paris in 1887 gives the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set executed a year later in Arles shows bouquets of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. About eight months later Van Gogh hoped to welcome and to impress Gauguin again with Sunflowers, now part of the painted décoration he prepared for the guestroom of his Yellow House where Gauguin was supposed to stay in Arles. After Gauguin's departure, Van Gogh imagined the two major versions as wings of the Berceuse Triptych, and finally he included them in his exhibit at Les XX in Bruxelles.

In a garden of roses be the only sunflower....

I'm like a wild sunflower….there is no hope in controlling me... :)

"Want to steal my heart? Take the time to get my favourite flower, and leave it for me when I least expect it."

The darkest souls are the most beautiful sunflowers

A single sunflower means more than a dozen roses.

Look at you sitting on my table big bright and yellow...all happy and smiling... I wish I could catch what you have...

mission today completed....sunflowers bought and in my room looking fabulously bright and friendly :)

Looking forward to buying some tomorrow :)

I need to add more to my sunflower bouquet tattoo. I just can't get enough of them. The most gorgeous flower ever.

wishes to run through a big field of them

Sunflowers & of course Starry Night are my faves! Have copies hanging in my Bedroom!

Good thing I researched whether or not they are poisonous to cats before bringing them home otherwise I'd be panicking right now! My cats are going OMNOMNOM!