Vase of Flowers

Copyright

Work in the public domain
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Maker


1840-1926

Title

Vase of Flowers

Date of Production

1881

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 100.4 cm (canvas)
Width: 81.8 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1932.SC.275

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

On display
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Label Text

In the early 1880s, Claude Monet focused on painting ambitious floral still lifes. This lavish bouquet of mallows (a wild flower), however, gave him particular trouble. He set the painting aside, only returning to it 40 years later. His later reworking over long-dried paint is visible in some of the petals and leaves. Monet finally signed and sold the painting around 1920.

The off-centre placement of the ceramic vase and the unusually high viewpoint create a strange feeling, as if the table and flowers are tilting forward and the forms dissolving.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed : bottom right & recto : : Claude Monet

Provenance

Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; Alex Reid, Glasgow; purchased by Samuel Courtauld in May 1923; Samuel Courtauld Gift, 1932.

Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020
The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019
Dulwich Picture Gallery (to be displayed with permanent collection), Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 11/09/2018-13/01/2019
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Summer Showcase - Unfinished, Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-20/09/2015
Into the 20th century - New Displays at the Courtauld, Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/2002
Impressionist and Post Impressionist Still Life Painting, Boston & USA, 17/02/2002-09/06/2002
Impressionist and Post Impressionist Still Life Painting, Phillips Collection, Washington, 22/09/2001-13/01/2002
The Gilbert, Courtauld and Wernher Collections, London & England, 07/01/1998-03/02/1998
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
The Impressionists and after, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1947
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