Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Flowers in a Vase
| Year of creation: | 1898 |
| Original size: | 46.0 cm x 55.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris |
A dense bouquet stands in a glass vase on a dark round table. Full pink roses dominate at the left, with red and orange blooms beside them, a yellow rose at the centre and small white flowers breaking up the dense masses of colour. A thin stem with pink blossoms and a large green leaf rise from the top of the bouquet. The ground is an even pale blue, without detail.
The painting dates from 1898. Renoir does not arrange the flowers into a legible ornament: the bouquet is built as a mass of colour out of which individual blooms emerge only far enough to be recognised. The glass vase is given in a few strokes that catch the light at its rim, and the table top gives the composition a dark, quiet base.
The original measures 46.0 cm x 55.0 cm and is oil on canvas. It is at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris under inventory number RF 1963-14; the painting belongs to the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection.
Our version is a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas. Every canvas is painted individually to order, so no two are exactly alike. It is available in eight upright sizes, from 50 x 60 cm to 110 x 130 cm. It is a painting in oils, not a print.
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