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Date : 1887
Sizes : 55 cm x 47 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Gift of Kate L. Brewster (1949)
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French Painting
Painting
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Paris (France)
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This painting was among the few works by van Gogh in the collection of Edgar Degas.
Van Gogh painted this still life in 1887, while he was still in Paris. It belongs to a larger series of still-life paintings from the fall of that year, all of which depict autumn fruits. A companion piece, showing a plate of very similarly treated purple and white grapes, is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam. Recent studies have shown that the apples and pear in the foreground were later additions, possibly by a hand other than van Gogh's.
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Still life
"Still life" is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (flowers, game, sea shells and the like) or man-made (drinking glasses, foodstuffs, pipes, books and so on).
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