Still Life with Grapes, Apples, Pear & Lemons — Vincent van Gogh, 1887

In 1887 Van Gogh was working out the logic of colour through still life — how complementary pairs push against each other, how a tabletop can become a colour argument rather than just an arrangement of fruit. The grapes, apples, pear and lemons here are as much a question about yellow-against-purple as they are a record of produce. One of his quieter Paris experiments, and an instructive one. A postcard for a kitchen wall, a colour-theory collector, or a simple, vivid greeting. From the Vincent van Gogh collection.