Sunflowers gone to Seed

Description

Special edition of 6 platinum palladium prints (+ 2 Artist Proofs)
Signed and numbered by Hans de Kort

Print at the original tintype 16″ x  20″ size on 20″ x 24″ Arches Platine, 310gsm
Prints are floating in a dark wenge frame, 3,5 x 53 x 63 cm,  museum glass 70% UV resistant

Prints are not in stock, they will be printed by hand after order.
Delivery time after ordering will take 2 – 4 weeks

exhibited at the Vangogh museum during “Van Gogh and the Sunflowers” 21 June until 1 September 2019.

Project “No Photos from Van Gogh”

We know that Vincent van Gogh didn’t like photography, and this also explains why there are so few photographs of him. Vincent thought that photograpghs lacked life, and much preferred painted portraits. He considered photography as being rather ‘mechanical’.
The wet plate collodion process , which this tintype was made, dates from his time.
What if?

This faded sunflowers come from the church garden in Zundert. .

Vincent’s father, Theodorus “Dorus” van Gogh, was appointed parson for the village of Zundert in 1849. He gave weekly sermons in the local church, which had been built in 1806 and was home to a small Protestant community of 114 members, 56 of them practising. Many significant events, including the Van Gogh children’s baptisms, took place in and around the church. The font used to baptise Vincent on 24 April 1853 is still inside.