In Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy (Van Gogh series), how is the Floral still life of the The garden elucidated?
Van Gogh had not painted still life during his stay at Saint-Rémy until the very last month of his year-long stay when he painted four striking bouquets of irises and roses. To his sister Wil he wrote, "The last days in Saint-Rémy I worked like a madman. Great bouquets of flowers, violet-colored irises, great bouquets of roses." Van Gogh's mother owned both upright versions of the irises and roses paintings held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art until her death in 1907.
still life Saint-Rémy moth Metropolitan Museum of Art