Guardian: Van Gogh doomed his sunflowers by adding white pigments to yellow paint

When Vincent van Gogh moved to the south of France in the late 1880s, he began to paint sunflowers in vibrant chrome yellow. But even before his untimely death, some of his paintings had lost their sheen and started to turn brown.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/14/van-gogh-sunflowers-yellow-paint

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