In the early 1880s, Monet focused almost exclusively on painting still-lifes. His letters attest that this lavish arrangement of wild mallows gave him particular trouble. He eventually abandoned the picture, kept it in his studio for forty years and only completed it in the last years of his life. Areas of later reworking are particularly visible in some of the petals and leaves.

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   In the early 1880s, Claude Monet focused on painting ambitious floral still lifes. This lavish bouquet of mallows (a wild flower), however, gave him particular trouble. He set the painting aside, only returning to it 40 years later. His later reworking over long-dried paint is visible in some of the petals and leaves. Monet finally signed and sold the painting around 1920.

   The off-centre placement of the ceramic vase and the unusually high viewpoint create a strange feeling, as if the table and flowers are tilting forward and the forms dissolving.

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