Fritz Mühsam Blue Vase with Flowers Still life

An original early 20th-century oil painting, Fritz Mühsam, Blue Vase with Flowers Still life.

A wonderful floral still life painting, likely painted in the 1930s, by interesting modernist German artist Fritz Mühsam (1880–1946). Mühsam was born in Hamburg and later worked in Berlin and Paris, where he produced paintings with Cubist and Expressionist influences.

The juxtaposition of colours, applied in pure, gestural dabs makes this painting part-figurative still life, part-study in colour and form. The background is painted in a block of flattened blue, a colour very close to that of the vase (and in fact forming the highlights of the vase), giving the overall composition a post-impressionist, decorative quality, redolent of Van Gogh's sunflowers where the yellow vase melds into yellow background.

In oil paint on wooden board.

Presented in a handsome vintage wooden frame in gold with linen liner (62 x 54.5cm).