Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth

Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth ( engl Giant Magnolias on a blue silk scarf ) is a still life, the anfertigte the American painter Martin Johnson Heade around 1890 as an oil painting on canvas. It is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in the United States. 1982 gave the organization "The Circle of the National Gallery of Art ," the image on the occasion of its tenth anniversary of the museum.

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Heade's works of art such as this painting, with its very striking contrast between the brightly lit flowers and the dark background are among the first still lifes of the 19th century in the United States at all. They also stimulate the imagination of the viewer - the issuing museum itself associated with " their rich colors, full and curvy contours, its fundamental opulence and the implicit perfume fragrance of flowers may be unclothed women who sit back lazily on luxurious couches ."