1886-1887 · 4 Gogh.art nodes

Paris

Paris is the quick turn toward colour and modern vision: flowers, prints, urban looking and new painterly companions enter his system here.

The Paris Flower Studies

In Paris he used flowers to learn colour — and what actually happened in Theo's apartment over those two years, few have ever spoken of.

Those who helped the painters usually vanish, afterward, into the backgrounds of the pictures.

For him colour was not a feeling but a working hypothesis. He needed a place to test it.

For two years they lived together — and of the inner detail of that time, almost no one has since spoken at length.