1886 · F243 · JH1129
Vase with Carnations
Vase with Carnations, 1886. Meaning, analysis, themes, technique, period and related Van Gogh artworks connected from The Paris Flower Studies.
Vase with Carnations meaning and analysis
Vase with Carnations belongs to the site node The Paris Flower Studies. That node places the work inside Van Gogh's letters, places and changing painterly abilities rather than isolating it as a single image.
Its strongest period signal is Van Gogh Paris Period.
Technically, the page connects this work to Van Gogh Oil on Canvas , Van Gogh Brushstroke Analysis . The related map below shows these connections.
Vase with Carnations, painted in Paris in the summer of 1886 and now in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Against a dark ground, red, white and pink carnations crowd a dark vase, with a feathery spray of green rising at upper right. This reproduction has a strong orange cast; in the painting the flowers are mainly red, white and pink.