Vase with poppies (1886)
The story
A handful of red poppies bursting out of a dark blue vase against a near-black ground. Painted in 1886 in Paris, when Van Gogh was beginning to use brighter pigments after the dark earth tones of his Dutch years.
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Year
- 1886
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- Wadsworth Atheneum
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
