Still Life with Flowers (Nature morte aux fleurs)
c. 1919
Oil on canvas
50.5 × 65.5 cm (19.9 × 25.8 in)
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● On view now — Collection Gallery, Room 16, South Wall
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026
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Nothing is still in this still life. An undulating table holds bouquets of red flowers bursting from white and mustard-yellow vases. Objects lean into one another, as if set off kilter by the weight of the paint itself— especially in the fervently impastoed blossoms that tangle with the blackish background.
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