In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
A tangle of yellow-and-red flowers emerge from a brownish vase. Zig-zagging strokes animate the table; dashes of lime green electrify the bouquet and the garden glimpsed through a doorway. (The composition, blocked at left and with a suggestion of deeper space at right, echoes that of Henri Matisse's nearby Studio with Goldfish). Soutine's bouquet, arguably the most bilious at the Barnes, bears witness to a comment that he "threw colors on the canvas like poisoned butterflies" and challenges viewers to analyze their own aesthetic responses, whatever those may be.
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Biagio Pinto — Flower Piece
Max Beckmann — Still Life with Autumn Flowers
Henri Matisse — Vase of Sunflowers
William Glackens — Zinnias in a Striped Blue Vase
Henri Matisse — Bouquet, Chinese vase
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner — Blumentopf und Zuckerdose; Blumen
George Hendrik Breitner — Ginger Pot wit Anemones
Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916) — Vase of Flowers
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Flowers (Fleurs)
William Glackens — Red Basket of Zinnias
Pierre Bonnard — Fleurs sur un tapis rouge
Henri Matisse — Flower Piece
