
Stock Photo by katyau 2 / 89 Sunflower Picture by WDGPhoto 17 / 484 Sketch with Sunflower Stock Images by Ateli 3 / 505 Vector sunflower. At the time, this was the most expensive painting ever sold.Vector sunflower Stock Photography by freesoulproduction 5 / 576 Hand drawn Sunflower. The last time one of Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings ( Vase of Fifteen Sunflowers) sold at an auction in 1987, it sold for over $39 million at Christie’s in London. Vincent painted large canvases with sunflowers in a vase, with three shades of yellow ‘and nothing else’. He did them in Arles, in southern France, between 18. Vincent Van Gogh’s series of sunflower paintings is the most famous. Sunflower drawings and paintings have been a popular subject of many of the world’s greatest artists, such as Gauguin and Monet. The flowering heads of the plant track the sun’s movement and turn to face the sun. The French call sunflowers “ tournesol,” which means “ turn with the sun.” Sunflowers exhibit a phenomenon known as heliotropism. There are over 70 different species of sunflower. Beautiful Vintage Sunflower Illustrations They carefully watered and tendered, measuring the height of the flower every week and making sunflower drawings. All three of my children have come home from primary school with a sunflower seed in a pot. That makes them a popular plant to introduce children to the natural sciences. The flowers are easy to grow and are get so impressively tall (American Sunflowers up to 4 meters). Every child in Briton must have grown a sunflower at some point in primary school. Sunflowers are grown all over the world, but they are a native to America. Here I’ve curated a collection of copyright-free vintage sunflower drawings. I look at a sunflower, and it makes me smile. It’s not surprising that sunflowers symbolize happiness. Inside: A collection of the best vintage botanical sunflower illustrations and drawings to print for free.
