What’s yellow, 2,615 pieces, and inspired by the Dutch master Vincent van Gogh? A new Lego set that will let you build your own version of Van Gogh’s famed Sunflowers.

The newly announced Lego kit was developed in conjunction with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and is designed to hang on your wall. In a way, it’s the Post-Impressionist masterpiece reimagined as a relief sculpture—albeit one you’ll have to spend hours upon hours putting together.

“It was wonderful to see how Lego Group and the experts of our museum have collaborated with such attention to detail and appreciation for the original artwork,” museum manager director Rob Groot said in a statement. “We hope this Lego set will inspire and engage new audiences with the art and life story of Vincent van Gogh.”

This isn’t the first time that Lego has released a Van Gogh-themed set. In 2021, the company decided to produce a Starry Night developed by a fan through the Lego Ideas portal, which considers any submissions that receive at least 10,000 votes.

Lego’s Vincent van Gogh Starry Night kit. Photo courtesy of Lego.

The $169.99 set, which was an immediate hit, was a collaboration with New York’s Museum of Modern Art. It features 2,316 pieces, including a wide black frame and a tiny Van Gogh mini figure with his own easel, canvas, and paintbrush.

Lego first launched its Lego Art series in 2020 as part of its new set of 18+ sets geared for adults. Initially, Andy Warhol (1928–1987) was the only featured fine artist with a $119.99 Marilyn Monroe kit. (The other offerings included Lego artworks featuring the likes of Mickey Mouse, Harry Potter, and the Beatles.)

Lego’s Hokusai: The Great Wave kit. Photo courtesy of Lego

The line has since grown to include The Great Wave, (ca. 1830­–32) by Japanese artist Hokusai (1760–1849), released in early 2023.

Last May, Lego announced a pair of Parisian sets recreating the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) and Notre-Dame Cathedral, the latter as part of the Lego Architecture series. The 1,503-piece Mona Lisa, which came out October 1, is perhaps not the most successful of the lot. The portrait’s delicate features don’t quite translate into blocky Lego brick form—even thought it is actually larger than the original, in an effort to better recreate the fine details.

Lego’s Mona Lisa and Notre Dame sets on display in someone’s home. Photo courtesy of Lego.

Most recently, in November, Lego unveiled its Robert Indiana LOVE set, which dropped on January 1. With a comparatively manageable 791 pieces, it’s being billed as perfect Valentine’s Day present to build with your romantic partner.

“As a design professional and enthusiast, I have long admired Robert Indiana’s work. His artistic language has become synonymous with pop-art and LOVE in its many mediums represents this like no other,” Lego Art designer Mani Zamani said in a statement.

A couple builds Lego’s Robert Indiana LOVE set. Photo courtesy of Lego.

Like Indiana’s LOVE, Sunflowers was a subject that Van Gogh returned to time after time, ultimately creating seven versions of the vase still life with four different compositions.

One is in a private collection, one was destroyed during World War II, and the others belong to London’s National Gallery, Munich’s Neue Pinakothek, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art in Tokyo. The Van Gogh Museum’s copy from 1889 is a repetition on the London canvas, painted the year before, as is the Tokyo version.

Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers (1889). Collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

The painting was a natural choice for the Lego Art series given the popularity of the Lego Botanicals series, first launched in 2021. A Lego apprentice named Astrid Christensen became well-known around the corporate headquarters for making Lego bouquets to decorate the offices, until the company commissioned her to design an official set. That has since grown into an extensive collection of vibrant floral house plants and flower arrangements.

To create a Lego version of Van Gogh’s floral masterpiece, the team at Lego Design worked off of a full-scale reproduction provided by the museum. That allowed them to faithfully match the color of the artist’s golden blooms (which, it turns out, are slowly fading).

“‘Working on one of the world’s most famous paintings can be quite daunting, but recreating Sunflowers has been a dream come true,” Lego designer Stijn Oom said in a statement. “One of the most challenging yet crucial aspects was translating the impasto effect into Lego bricks while preserving the painting’s asymmetrical yet balanced composition.”

“Obviously, with Lego bricks, there is the possibility of going into a full 3D translation, but we decided to stay close to the original and limit the extrusion,” he added. “Using our Lego system as a medium, we look for existing elements that relate to the shapes and brushstrokes in the original artwork. This way we can decide the scale and size of the model.”

An in-progress shot of building Lego’s Van Gogh Sunflowers kit. Photo courtesy of Lego.

The Sunflowers set, which costs $199.99, is part of a larger partnership between the Van Gogh Museum and the Danish toy company. Timed to the set’s March 1 release, a podcast recorded on site at the institution will go live on the Lego website featuring a conversation between Oom and Van Gogh Museum senior curator Nienke Bakker.

They’ll discuss how Van Gogh became known for his sunflower canvases, and what the design process translating the famed painting into Lego form was like.

Lego’s Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers set. Photo courtesy of Lego.

And come June, Lego will build an installation on site at the museum. It will be on view through August before traveling to LEGO World in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and LEGO House at the company headquarters in Billund, Denmark.