Sunflowers | Vincent van Gogh / Egon Schiele / Georges Braque / William Blake / Allen Ginsberg

"...we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside..." 
Allen Ginsberg (Sunflower Sutra, 1955)

Vincent van Gogh, Les Tournesols, 1888

Georges Braque, Sunflowers at Choisel, 1946

Egon Schiele, Sunflowers, 1911

Ah! sunflower, weary of time,

Who countest the steps of the sun,

Seeking after that sweet golden clime

Where the traveller’s journey is done;

Where the youth pined away with desire,

And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,

Arise from their graves and aspire;

Where my sunflower wishes to go.

William Blake : Ah! Sunflower (1757-1827) P. 1793

< Emile Nolde, Blue Sky and Sunflowers, 1928

Claude Monet, Sunflowers, 1881                                                               Gustave Caillebotte, Sunflowers on the Banks of the Seine, 1886

Gustav Klimt, The Sunflower, 1907