Monday, August 1, 2022

 Vincent in Arles
(1888)  


From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA:
For Van Gogh, oleanders were joyous, life-affirming flowers that bloomed "inexhaustibly" and were always "putting out strong new shoots." In this painting of August 1888 the flowers fill a majolica jug that the artist used for other still lifes made in Arles. They are symbolically juxtaposed with Émile Zola's La joie de vivre, a novel that Van Gogh had placed in contrast to an open Bible in a Nuenen still life of 1885.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436530

Still Life: Vase with Oleanders and Books


August, 1888
Oil on canvas
60.3 x 73.6 cm. 

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436530

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