Almond Blossoms by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh
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Almond Blossoms is a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh. They represented awakening and hope. He enjoyed them aesthetically and found joy in painting flowering trees.
Large blossom branches like this against a blue sky were one of Van Gogh’s favourite subjects. Almond trees flower early in the spring making them a symbol of new life. Van Gogh borrowed the subject, the bold outlines and the positioning of the tree in the picture plane from Japanese printmaking.
The painting was a gift for his brother Theo and sister-in-law Jo, who had just had a baby son, Vincent Willem. In the letter announcing the new arrival, Theo wrote: ‘As we told you, we’ll name him after you, and I’m making the wish that he may be as determined and as courageous as you.’ Unsurprisingly, it was this work that remained closest to the hearts of the Van Gogh family. Vincent Willem went on to found the Van Gogh Museum.
AED1,250.00
Château Noir by French Artist Paul Cézanne
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After settling in Aix, France, in 1899, Cézanne ventured daily into the surrounding Provencal landscape in search of subjects to paint. Chateau Noir, a recently constructed neo-Gothic castle designed to mimic aged ruins, captivated him. He repeatedly represented this structure and also painted from its grounds, where he had an unobstructed view of nearby Mont Sainte-Victoire, another favoured subject. As is typical of landscapes executed late in his career, Cézanne applied thick paint in broad, multihued swatches.
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Fishing Boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer – Arles, 1888 by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh
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Can you see why these fishermen’s boats appear slightly unreal? Compared to the irregular surface of the sandy beach, they’ve been painted in an overly two-dimensional way. The boats are made up of areas of uniform colour within strong outlines. Furthermore, the boats don’t cast shadows on the beach. These stylistic elements were familiar to Van Gogh from his collection of Japanese prints.
Van Gogh would have preferred to make this painting on the beach, but he couldn’t, because the fishermen put out to sea very early every morning. He did draw the boats there, however, and later made this painting at home.
AED1,600.00
American Realism, Edward Hopper, Modern art, Modernism, Oil on Canvas, Paintings, Realism, Social realism, Western Paintings
Nighthawks – Edward Hopper
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Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner’s large glass window. The light coming from the diner illuminates a darkened and deserted urban streetscape.
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Starry Night Over the Rhône by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh
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Starry Night, commonly known as Starry Night Over the Rhône, is one of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings of Arles at night. It was painted on the bank of the Rhône that was only a one or two-minute walk from the Yellow House on the Place Lamartine, which Van Gogh was renting at the time.
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The Harvest (La Moisson) by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh
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The Siesta (La Meridienne) by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh
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The Siesta is an oil on canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh painted between December 1889 and January 1890 while he was interned in a mental asylum in the French town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. It is part of the permanent collection of the ‘Musée d’Orsay, in Paris’.
AED1,400.00
The Starry Night by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh
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The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.
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Wheat Field Under Thunderclouds by Dutch Artist Vincent van Gogh
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Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds is an 1890 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. The painting measures. It depicts a relatively flat and featureless landscape with fields of green wheat, under a foreboding dark blue sky with a few heavy white clouds.
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