Cineraria in a Flowerpot
by GOGH, Vincent van, Oil on canvas, 54 x45 cm
Catalogue numbers: F 282, JH 1165.
A significant part of the pictures painted by van Gogh in his Parisian period belonged to the genre of still-life with flowers. These paintings can be considered experimental aiming to lighten his palette and explored colours.
The characteristic features of the present still-life are the depiction of cineraria, a rarely represented flower, and the unusual diagonal cut which contrasts with van Gogh’s other Parisian still-lifes of frontal, symmetrical composition. The pot looks as if it were falling over, its spatial positioning is somewhat uncertain.