Van Gogh Assorted Cushions by Bedding House feature:

Van Gogh Ears of Wheat Green Cushion 45cm x 45cm
Cotton Cover with Polyester insert

Van Gogh Wheatfield Yellow Cushion 45cm x 45cm
Cotton Cover with Polyester insert

Van Gogh Paint Ochre Cushion 45cm x 45cm
Cover; Front: 55% Viscose 45% Cotton Velvet, Back: 100% Cotton. Insert; Polyester

Van Gogh Portrait Natural Cushion 50cm x 50cm
Cover; Front: 55% Viscose 45% Cotton Velvet, Back: 100% Cotton. Insert; Polyester

The Ears of Wheat decorative cushion is based on the painting Ears of Wheat. For this painting, Van Gogh must have stood in the middle of a wheatfield. He ‘zoomed in’ on the plants with their waving leaves and heavy stalks. The green sea of wheat is interrupted by a blue cornflower in the upper left and the pink bindweed in the lower right. Van Gogh described this decorative painting to his friend, the artist Paul Gauguin, as follows: ‘nothing more than ears of wheat, green-blue stalks, long, ribbon-like leaves, under a sheen of green and pink; ears of wheat, yellowing slightly, with an edge made pale pink by the dusty manner of flowering.’ The colours were supposed to evoke ‘the soft rustle of the ears of grain swaying back and forth in the wind.The Ears of Wheat cushion is made from slub cotton with a digital print and a plain green-coloured back. The cushion is finished with green tassels.

The Wheatfield decorative cushion is based on the painting Wheatfield with a reaper. Van Gogh painted this walled field from his hospital room. For the first few months that he was there, he was not allowed to leave the grounds. The reaper labours in the heat of the sun. The wheat, painted with thick blobs of yellow, undulates around him. For Van Gogh, wheat was a symbol of the eternal cycle of nature and the transience of life. He saw the reaper as ‘the image of death... in this sense that humanity would be the wheat being reaped.’ He added, however, that this death was ‘almost smiling’. It is all yellow, apart from a row of purple hills – a pale, light yellow. ‘I myself find that funny, that I saw it like that through the iron bars of a cell. The Wheatfield cushion is made from slub cotton with a digital print and a plain ochre-coloured back. The cushion is finished with tassels. 

The Paint decorative cushion is based on the painting Landscape at Twilight. Van Gogh painted this twilight landscape in the fields near Auvers, with a view of the local castle. He painted the pear trees in the foreground using a flurry of black brushstrokes, thereby intensifying the contrast between the dark trees and the luminous yellow sky. Because of its wide format, the painting resembles a panorama. It is one metre wide and 50 centimetres high. From June 1890 onwards, Van Gogh made a total of thirteen works with these dimensions. All but one are landscapes. He cut the canvases himself from a large roll. The Paint cushion is made from 55% viscose and 45% cotton with a digital print and a plain green-coloured back made from cotton. The cushion is finished with cord piping. 

The Portrait decorative cushion is based on the painting Self Portrait. People all over the world recognize this man with his red beard and serious expression. Vincent van Gogh painted roughly 35 self-portraits in total, most of them in Paris. He produced his self-portraits to practise painting people. He was not interested in portraying himself as realistically as possible. Here he used the neo-impressionist style with short, rough brushstrokes, alternated with longer brushstrokes, such as the orange in his beard. The background was originally purple (a mixture of red and blue), but the red pigment has become almost completely transparent as a result of discolouration. The Portrait cushion is made from 55% viscose and 45% cotton velvet with a digital print and a plain sand-coloured back made from cotton. The cushion is finished with fringe. 

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