A vase holding mostly white flowers sits on a floral-patterned cloth in this vertical still life painting. The ice-blue vase has a narrow foot, tall, slightly tapering sides, round shoulders, and a long neck flanked by handles. An ivory-white circle at the center could be a flower painted on the body. The flowers the vase holds are all pearl and snow white except for two golden yellow flowers and dark greenery. The cloth on which the vase sits is patterned with muted red and dark yellow flowers with green leaves against parchment white and earth brown. A few brown lines cutting across the…
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Vase of Flowers

Paul Cezanne (French, 1839 - 1906)

1900/1903

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 101 x 81.9 cm (39 3/4 x 32 1/4 in.) ; framed: 125.1 x 106.4 x 5.1 cm (49 1/4 x 41 7/8 x 2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer
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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