Vincent van Gogh, Small Bottle with Peonies and Blue Delphiniums, 1886, oil on cardboard, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
Title: Small Bottle with Peonies and Blue Delphiniums, Paris, June-July, 1886
Artist: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
This coming Tuesday, July 29, will be the 135th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh’s death. To commemorate this date, I searched for a work that I had never seen before, To discover a new vision by Vincent, Small Bottle with Peonies and Blue Delphiniums, part of the Vincent van Gogh Museum collection in Amsterdam. Created when Vincent was living in Paris in 1886 with his art dealer brother Theo–a time when Vincent produced a number of arrangements with a variety of flowers.
However, the painting above has an almost hypnotic effect, a mysterious concoction of colors, particularly evident in the unusual green tone of the background, and twisting, snake-like forms of what I assume are red (verging on scarlet ) peonies on our left. The petals too strewn rather haphazardly across the table, blending into a painted mass.
Does this perhaps overlooked floral still life by Vincent, rival the iconic sunflowers? Or does it matter? For isn’t each work of art unique?
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