Van Gogh‘s paintings in Amsterdam over the past few years has shown that some of the chrome yellow in the flowers‘ petals has darkened significantly, due to the reaction of chrome yellow with other pigments in sunlight. Van Gogh‘s sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just as their real-life counterparts did.
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The ephemerality of pigments and life.
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