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Still Life with Coffee Pot, 1888
In a letter to Emile Bernard, Van Gogh described this still life as ‘a variation of blues enlivened by a series of yellows ranging all the way to orange’. The description barely does justice to the bold arrangement of forms and colours and does not mention the highly conceptual game Van Gogh plays by giving the work a painted, fictional red inner frame set within the expanse of white painted canvas.
Oil on canvas
Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation Collection, Athens