Pot of Flowers

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

An orange begonia in a terracotta pot tangles with a blue background. Note the solid-looking shadow of the pot and plant, and the nimbus of sapphire blue around the blossoms. Pot of Flowers dates to Maurer's Fauve period, when he was integrating Cézanne's structural approach with Matisse's emotive use of gemlike colors; his goal was to express the subject's spirit and his sensations of it. Maurer was also inspired by the philosopher Henri Bergson's concept of élan vital , the "vital impetus" of nature in operation beyond surface appearances.

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