Vase with Oleanders and Books

1888 Find this painting on the map

Van Gogh was fond of oleanders, he described them as “joyous,life-affirming flowers that bloomed ‘riotously’ and were ‘continually renewing’themselves”.

Vincent painted this work in August 1888. The vase he used to put theflowers in, was used for other Arles still lifes before.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA