Still Life with Azaleas

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Still Life with Azaleas

Artist Jan Bogaerts (Dutch, 1878 - 1962)

Date1912

Dimensions23 7/8 × 27 5/8 in. (60.6 × 70.2 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey and Gift of William E. Levis, by exchange

Object number

2019.19

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Label TextWorking 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.