"Fleurs dans un verre" belongs to a very small group of floral still lifes that Vincent van Gogh completed in his seventy day residency in Auvers-sur-Oise, where he would bring his life to an end in the height of the summer of 1890.
In his seventy days in Auvers, van Gogh would paint seventy or so canvases, a huge output by any measure.
Many of these canvases represent the village of Auvers itself and its immediate surroundings. There are also major portraits and, rarer still, still lifes such as Fleurs dans un verre. | © Sotheby's
Vincent van Gogh | Fleurs dans un verre (Auvers, 1890)