Description
This fragrant soap in its beautiful packaging featuring Van Gogh's mesmerizing Sunflowers makes a wonderful hostess gift or souvenir of your visit to the PMA. The soaps lovely clay color is inspired by the South of France. The Bergamot fragrance smells of sunny orange and lemon!
About the Painting: While he waited for Paul Gauguin to join him in the Provençal city of Arles in 1888, Vincent van Gogh painted five audaciously decorative still life's of sunflowers in simple earthenware jugs. At least two of these canvases decorated Gauguin's bedroom when he reached the city late in October, and the French painter came to admire them greatly. Always defensive about the tragic outcome of his stay--it ended with Van Gogh's self-mutilation and madness--Gauguin later claimed that the sunflower paintings directly reflected his own good advice, generously offered in Arles, that his Dutch friend avoids monotony by adding "bugle notes" of brilliant color to his paintings. Whether the Philadelphia Sunflowers precedes Gauguin's visit or is one of two replicas Van Gogh painted the following year, it is an explosion of brilliant color and agitated outlines the twelve flowers as full of angular energy and as vital and vivid in personality as the artist who painted them. —Christopher Riopelle, from Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections (1995), p. 207.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Exclusive
- Handcrafted in Philadelphia by local maker Miche Scott
- 5 oz
- Made of coconut oil, olive fruit oil, shea butter, mica & parfum
- Bergamot scent
