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| Keywords: Van Gogh - Vase of Roses.jpg Artwork Creator Vincent van Gogh 1890 oil canvas cm 93 74 institution Metropolitan Museum of Art 110000976 object history credit line The Walter H and Leonore Annenberg Collection Gift of Walter H and Leonore Annenberg 1993 Bequest of Walter H Annenberg 2002 <small> 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 58 187 belong Striking in their facility of execution and elegant simplicity of design 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 suite of sunflowers he had made earlier in Arles 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 <ref>http //www metmuseum org/Collections/search-the-collections/110000976 Metropolitan Museum of Art</ref> reflist </small> accession number 1993 400 5 art database PD-old-100-1923 Vase of Roses by Vincent van Gogh Uploads by User Boo-Boo Baroo | ||||
