Provenance

Cornelis Hoogendijk

Dutch, 1866 - 1911

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Nine oranges and lemons sit in a shallow basket with dark green, spiky branches behind and a pair of cobalt-blue gloves in front in this horizontal still life painting. The scene is painted with long, loose brushstrokes, which are visible throughout. The muted orange and golden yellow fruit are outlined with blue, as is the woven basket in which they sit. The two cypress branches behind and to either side of the basket are painted with sky blue along the stems and long, bristly needles. The gloves sit one atop the other near the lower right corner, and the top glove has three brown stripes down the back. The surface beneath the still life is sand brown, and the pale turquoise background takes up the top third of the composition. The artist signed and dated this with the location in the lower right corner, “Vincent Arles 89.”
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves, 1889, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2014.18.13

Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves

Vincent van Gogh · 1889 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.18.13

Bibliography

1915

  • Bangel, R. ""Die Sammlung Hoogendijk im Rijksmuseum." Cicerone 7 (1915): 171-189.

1993

  • Henkels, Herbert. "Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: de collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866-1911)." Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, no. 3-4 (1993):209-295.