During the last two months of his life – from May to July 1890 – van Gogh lived in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, where, among other things, he painted several paintings with flowers. “Pink roses” – one of the best paintings of this series. It is characteristic of the artist’s late work.
Unlike the bright orange and yellow shades that he used in Arly, here Van Gogh uses a softer and melancholic color combination that speaks of a more fertile and humid northern climate. This picture is typical for the last period of Vincent van Gogh’s creative work also because it practically lacks gravitation and spatiality.
Van Gogh managed to convey a sense of proximity of roses to the observer. On where the bottom of the picture shows an almost invisible cup under the flowers, but the depth hints only a slightly changing form of smears and a slight change in the shades of green. The sharp dark blue contours of the leaves and stems of roses, as well as the vibrating and winding lines are an example of the influence on the artist of Japanese woodcarving.
These techniques, although reminiscent of the style of Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, but van Gogh uses them in his own in an inexpressible manner. The painting was presented in 1923 to the New Carpathian Glyptoteka by Helga Jacobsen.
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