Vincent van Gogh - Still Life Pink Roses in a Vase 1890
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Still Life Pink Roses in a Vase 1890
92x73cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA:
In May 1890, just before his departure from the asylum in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted an exceptional group of four still lifes, to which both the Museum's Roses and Irises belong. These bouquets and their counterparts—an upright composition of irises (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) and a horizontal composition of roses (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)—were conceived as a decorative ensemble, like the earlier suite of sunflowers. Traces of pink along the tabletop and rose petals in the present painting, which have faded over time, offer a faint reminder of the formerly vivid "canvas of pink roses against a yellow-green background in a green vase."