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Personal Reflection
This is the kind of painting you almost walk past until you realize it is full of someone’s life. The onions, extinguished candle and worn books speak about ordinary survival. It feels less like evidence that someone was trying, one day at a time, to put themselves back together.
About This Artwork
Painted shortly after Van Gogh’s famous breakdown in Arles, this still life contains onions, books, a candle, a coffee pot and personal objects. Many art historians see it almost as a self-portrait through possessions, quietly documenting a period of physical and emotional recovery.
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Location
- Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
- Date experienced
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