The Painter of Sunflowers (in French: Le Peintre de Tournesols) is a portrait of Vincent van Gogh by Paul Gauguin.

[5] Gauguin admitted that his portrait of Van Gogh was not a perfect likeness, but he felt that he had captured his friend's intimate character.

A key indicator of this is that the work was completed in the winter of 1888, but depicts a scene from the summer, suggesting that Gauguin developed the concept of the painting first, and then later added details observed from life.

Art historians have noted that Van Gogh's head appears distorted, with a sloping shape and flat features.

[6] Gauguin’s early work was still indebted to the Impressionist style, an artistic movement that centered around painting from observation and capturing transient moments.

From his time in Arles, however, Gauguin’s work is considered to be Post-Impressionist, due to its developed individual style and departure from observed appearances.

"[10] X-radiographs of the canvas and microscopic analysis of the paint reveal that the work was likely done on a coarse, jute fabric, and used a palette of optically pure lead pigments including white, vermillion, chrome yellow, synthetic ultramarine, and more.