Garden Fruit and Vegetable Basket Painting Van Gogh The image speaks of ripeness

The image speaks of ripeness

Up close the layered impasto rewards a second look

its crystalline barrel curling overhead in a perfect spiral

soft sky blues and warm bay coat pair beautifully with exposed brick

A great ocean wave curls and breaks at the centre of this five-panel seascape

Garden Fruit and Vegetable Basket Painting Van Gogh The image speaks of ripenessSet on a stone tabletop before a sweeping patchwork of rolling green hills, this exuberant composition heaps a wide wicker basket with the bounty of the kitchen garden. Glossy red and yellow peppers, ripe tomatoes, a crisp green apple, oranges, courgettes and bunches of pale and dark grapes tumble together, with leafy celery and a sheaf of orange carrots resting alongside. The colours are bold and saturated, every surface rendered with appetising