Vase with Gladioli and Chinese Asters_Vincent Van Gogh

Title: Vase with Gladioli and Chinese Asters_Vincent Van Gogh
Description: This is one of more than 35 flower still lifes that Van Gogh painted in Paris in the summer of 1886. He hoped that paintings of flowers would sell well. These were also exercises in the use of colour and a loose style of painting. In this still life, he worked with strong colour contrasts in complementary colours, placing green and red side by side, or blue and orange. Pairs like these form the basis of the colour theory of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), an artist Van Gogh greatly admired.
Creator: Vincent Van Gogh (Netherlands, Zundert 1853-1890)
Date Created: 1886.
Format: 46.5 cm x 38.4 cm; centimeters
Subject: Landscape; Nature
Identifier: Flower012
Medium: oil on canvas; oil painting (technique); canvas (textile material)
Source: Vincent Van Gogh
Rights: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam