Artist goes virtual as Sunflowers unite for live online show

THE HAGUE - Five versions of Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece painting Sunflowers will be united across three continents for the first time on Monday via a consecutive livestream feed, the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam has said.

"On Monday ... Facebook is hosting five consecutive livestreams in which international museum directors and conservators present the version of Sunflowers in their own institution," the museum said on its website.

"Five different Sunflowers paintings will be reunited in this way for the first time in history."