Flowers in a Vase (Zinnias) Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, 1858-1924). Flowers in a Vase (Zinnias), ca. 1910-1913. Oil on canvas, 23 1/4 x 25 3/16 in. ( x 64 cm). Flowers in a Vase is one of approximately ten canvases painted by Maurice Prendergast between 1910 and 1913 that feature a simple tabletop arrangement of flowers. In these he synthesized his understanding of the art of the French artists Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse to arrive at his own decorative Post-Impressionist style. He used deliberate, broadly applied strokes of a paint-loaded brush to describe both form and spa
Flowers in a Vase (Zinnias) Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, 1858-1924). Flowers in a Vase (Zinnias), ca. 1910-1913. Oil on canvas, 23 1/4 x 25 3/16 in. ( x 64 cm). Flowers in a Vase is one of approximately ten canvases painted by Maurice Prendergast between 1910 and 1913 that feature a simple tabletop arrangement of flowers. In these he synthesized his understanding of the art of the French artists Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse to arrive at his own decorative Post-Impressionist style. He used deliberate, broadly applied strokes of a paint-loaded brush to describe both form and space--a technique that creates an allover surface of patterns reminiscent of a mosaic. American Art ca. 1910-1913
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