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Nine oranges and lemons sit in a shallow basket with dark green, spiky branches behind and a pair of cobalt-blue gloves in front in this horizontal still life painting. The scene is painted with long, loose brushstrokes, which are visible throughout. The muted orange and golden yellow fruit are outlined with blue, as is the woven basket in which they sit. The two cypress branches behind and to either side of the basket are painted with sky blue along the stems and long, bristly needles. The gloves sit one atop the other near the lower right corner, and the top glove has three brown stripes…
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Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves

painter Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 - 1890)

1889

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 48 × 62 cm (18 7/8 × 24 7/16 in.) ; framed: 65.72 × 79.38 × 8.57 cm (25 7/8 × 31 1/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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