Description
Signed, oil on canvas, with a portrait of a lady verso
Dimensions
51cm x 41cm (20in x 16in)
Footnote
Provenance: The Wood Collection
Note:
'There is so much in these mere objects, flowers, leaves, jugs, what not - colours, form, relation - I can never see mystery coming to an end' Peploe to a fellow artist in 1929, on the endless appeal of the still-life.
By the late 1920s, from which Tulips in a Vase dates, Peploe returned with more subtlety to the muted colours of Cézanne. His subsequent paintings are cooler in palette, weightier in form and focused on tonal harmony, with loose brushwork and splashes of warm colour enlivening the overall effect.