Still Life- Vase with Poppies by Vincent Van Gogh

Vase with Poppies is an 1886 oil painting created in Paris, France by Post-Impressionist Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. In 1957, a private collector bequeathed a trove of Impressionist works to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut—among them a painting of a vase of vibrant red poppies, believed to be a Vincent van Gogh. By 1990, the authenticity of the artwork had been called into question, and it was ferreted into storage. The museum staff decided to send “Vase With Poppies” to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam for further inspection. Experts there analyzed the work’s paint, material and style and concluded that it is indeed a van Gogh, one that falls in line with the paintings he made not long after moving from Antwerp to Paris in 1886.