Apples are never one color
Each fruit mixes green, yellow, orange and red touches. The colored contours separate them without creating a rigid black border.
Canvas reproduction
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Oil painting on rolled canvas, unframed. Custom size available on request.
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Artwork description
Vincent van Gogh · 1887 · Paris
Ten green, yellow and orange apples fill a basket of red wicker placed on a light table; their colorful contours and the blue-purple shadow of the basket animate a composition bathed in yellow.
Look at the work
The basket forms a large inclined ellipse. The fruits overlap without symmetry: some show their peduncle, others an almost round face crossed by green and red.
The table and the back meet in a cream light streaked with pink and yellow. A blue shadow under the left edge of the basket responds to the purples of the wicker strands.
Painted in Paris in 1887, this oil on canvas measuring 46.7 × 55.3 cm is listed F379/JH1341. The Saint Louis Art Museum preserves it under number 43:1972 and exhibits it in gallery 218.
Composition, touch and color
The museum highlights the balance between the red outlines of the apples, their green material and the blue-purple shadows that compensate for the dominant yellow.
Each fruit mixes green, yellow, orange and red touches. The colored contours separate them without creating a rigid black border.
Reds, pinks and purples follow the basket ellipse. The repeated lines describe both braided construction and depth.
"Vincent 87" is painted red in the lower left corner. Rare at Van Gogh, this signature matches the contours of the fruit and the basket.
Documented benchmarks
The institutional notice gives the number of fruits, location, dimensions, signature and place of the work in Parisian still lifes.
The provenance begins with the Scottish art dealer Alexander Reid, Van Gogh's friend in Paris and first owner of the painting.
Van Gogh signed few paintings. Here, his first name and year appear clearly in the lower left corner.
Given by Sydney M. Shoenberg Sr., the painting has been in the museum since 1972 and has object number 43:1972.
Your reproduction
The copy must retain the ten well-individualized fruits, the red-purple structure of the basket and the small multicolored touches of the light background.
| Title | Still life, basket of apples, F379 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Vincent van Gogh (1853 -1890) |
| Date | 1887 |
| Place of creation | Paris |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 46.7 × 55.3 cm |
| Inventory | F379 · JH1341 · 43:1972 |
| Conservation | Saint Louis Art Museum |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
In your interior
The horizontal format is suitable for a bright kitchen, dining room or living room. Cream yellow, apple green, red and purple add color without darkening the wall.
Frequently asked questions
No. Each reproduction is manually painted in oil on canvas. Brushstrokes and material variations belong to the final result.
The public domain documentary image measured 3,864 × 3,288 px; it was reduced to 3,000 × 2,553 px in real WebP, without artificial enlargement.
Yes. Photographs of the finished painting are sent to you; you can request alterations before validating the shipment.
Yes. The format can be adapted to your wall while maintaining the proportions and balance of the original composition.
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