Van Gogh | Small Bottle with Peonies and Blue Delphiniums, 1886 | Art in Detail

Title: Small Bottle with Peonies and Blue Delphiniums;

Author: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)*;

Date: Paris, june - july 1886;

Medium: Oil on canvas;

Dimensions: cm 34.5x27;

Current location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh Foundation.

Vincent van Gogh* began experimenting with color in his still life flower series. By the summer of 1885, the artist created some 40 paintings with a traditional approach, meaning that the flowers were in a vase and placed in the center of the canvas.

His 1886 painting Small Bottle with Peonies and Blue Delphiniums, done with oil on painter's board -a cheaper material than canvas-, from the Gemeente Museum collection, is one of them.

Flowers became the subject of many of the artist's works during this period. But after painting over 10 species in mid-September, he sought out other subjects including fruit, shoes, fish and budding flower bulbs.