Still Life with Azaleas
Artist: Jan Bogaerts (Dutch, 1878 - 1962)
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
23 7/8 × 27 5/8 in. (60.6 × 70.2 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey and Gift of William E. Levis, by exchange
Object number: 2019.19
Label Text:Working in a style approaching photographic realism, Jan Bogaerts’s paintings are characterized by an evocative sense of timelessness and calm stillness. Painted in 1912, during the apex of the first phase of Cubism, Bogaert’s bright still life displays no interest in the development of European Modernism during the first two decades of the 20th century. Instead it presents the enduring appeal of a realistically executed view of fruits and flowers harmoniously arranged. At the same time, it is a complex, even mesmerizing composition that utilizes mirror reflections that intentionally confound the appearance of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface.
Not on view