Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth
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| Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth |
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| Martin Johnson Heade , ca.1890 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 38.4 × 61.5 cm |
| National Gallery of Art , Washington, DC |
Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth (dtsch. Giant Magnolias on a blue silk scarf ) is a still life , which the American painter Martin Johnson Heade in the year 1890 as oil paintings anfertigte on canvas. It is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in the United States . In 1982 the organization “ The Circle of the National Gallery of Art ” donated the painting to the museum on the occasion of its tenth anniversary.
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Heade's works of art like this painting, with their very striking contrast between the brightly lit flowers and the dark background, are among the first ever 19th-century still lifes in the United States. They also stimulate the imagination of the beholder - the exhibiting museum itself associates with "their rich colors, full and curvy contours, their basic opulence and the implicit perfume scent of the flowers, possibly unclothed women leaning back lazily on luxurious couches".
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- ↑ Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth. National Gallery of Art, accessed May 4, 2013 .