Vincent van Gogh - Vase with Zinnias and Other Flowers 1886
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Vase with Zinnias and Other Flowers 1886
50x61cm oil/canvas
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada
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From National Gallery of Canada:
After working as an art dealer, schoolteacher, and missionary, Van Gogh decided to become an artist in 1880 and spent several years painting and sketching in the Netherlands. Intrigued by the Impressionists, he moved to Paris in March 1886 and lived with his brother Theo, an art dealer. "Still-life: Flowers (II)" is among a group of still-lifes painted that summer in which Van Gogh shed the darker palette of his Dutch period and explored colour theories then current among the Parisian avant-garde. In July 1886, Theo wrote to their mother that Vincent was "mainly painting flowers - with the object to put a more lively color into his next pictures . . . . He has acquaintances who give him a collection of flowers every week which serve him as models."