Flowerpot with Chives

Vincent van Gogh

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Work Overview

Flowerpot with Chives
Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1887; Paris, France *
Style: Post-Impressionism
Genre: flower painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands


Van Gogh preferred to select items from daily life to portray in his still life paintings. With Flowerpot with Chives (F337) Van Gogh used a thin brush to carefully create this painting of a pot of chives. Contrasting colors of red and orange against green are used in this work. The background is a pattern that Van Gogh used in other works,[49] such as Still life with Carafe and Lemons (F340).[50] From the time this painting was made in 1887 and forward, Van Gogh used colorful backgrounds for his still lifes and portraits.