Vincent van Gogh - Vase with Zinnias and Geraniums 1886
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Vase with Zinnias and Geraniums 1886
61x45cm oil/canvas
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada
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From National Gallery of Canada:
Arriving in Paris in spring 1886, Van Gogh was exposed to Impressionist and New-Impressionist painting for the first time. He abandoned his dark, sombre palette, which he had used in the Netherlands, and began using bright colours. Among his early Parisian paintings are several still lifes of flowers which reveal, in their rich application of colour, the influence of Adolphe Monticelli, a contemporary painter from Marseilles whose work Van Gogh admired and collected.