Vincent is Coming Home

#93038     66 X 44”      ac     1990

• Matisse: “Dessert, Harmony in Red” (1908 – 09)
• Vang Gogh: “Sunflowers” (1888)
• “The Painter on the Road to Tarascon” (1888)

The sublime interior of Matisse’s “Dessert, Harmony in Red” has become Van Gogh’s home, and a pattern of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” adorns the wallpaper and tablecloth. Van Gogh’s wife, a graceful Arlesian woman, prepares dessert for the happy artist, returning home from a long day of painting under the sun.

Thus, in Chen’s adaptation, Vincent van Gogh has finally attained the family intimacy and artistic recognition which he so earnestly craved throughout his lonely life.

– T. F. Chen and Julie Chen