Van Gogh's Irises Jigsaw Puzzle by PaperBlanksA severe mental health crisis, in which he now famously cut off his own ear, prompted van Gogh to admit himself to the Saint Paul Asylum at Saint Rmy in the south of France. His recuperation began with painting of the asylum garden, Irises chief among the resulting output. The close study of nature was the foundation of van Gogh's art, as his precise delineation of individual flowers suggests, but he also brought to that study an astonishing degree of