Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
1887, the peak year for still life
The record dates Still Life with Basket of Apples (to Lucien Pissarro) to 1887. Still lifes are named in sixty-six titles across this catalogue, and sixteen of them are dated 1887 — more than any other year, ahead of thirteen in 1888 and twelve in 1885. The format is at its most concentrated exactly where the chronology has the painter in a city.
What the record gives
The work is held by the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo. No dimensions are recorded, so no measurement is quoted here. The measured palette reads as yellow.
Apples across three years
Apples are named in seven titles here: three dated 1885, one dated 1886 and three dated 1887, and none at all after that. The dedication carried in this title, to a fellow painter, is the record's own wording and is left as it stands; nothing about the circumstances behind it is established by the card, and nothing is inferred. Yellow, the measured family, dominates fifty-six of the ninety-five works dated 1887, against twenty-six of the seventy dated 1885.
Sources
6 references- Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ vɑŋ ˈɣɔx] ; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he c
- Gogh, Vincent van — Getty ULAN
Dutch painter and draftsman, 1853-1890
- Still Life with Basket of Apples — Wikidata
description: painting by Vincent van Gogh; inception: 1887-10-06; collection: Kröller-Müller Museum
- vggallery.com — record for "Still Life with Basket of Apples"
Primary source record for this work (vggallery.com).
- Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Paris) — Wikipedia
Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Paris) is the subject of many drawings, sketches and paintings by Vincent van Gogh in 1886 and 1887 after he moved to Montmartre in Paris from the Netherlands. While in Paris, Van Gogh transformed t
- Vincent van Gogh - Still Life, Basket of Apples — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
