As the hearses came to a halt, relatives placed dozens of red, white and blue flowers on top of the vehicles and comforted each other.
The new work was begun during a conservation treatment in 2009, when conservators found that the yellows in Flowers In A Blue Vase - this time from a pigment called cadmium yellow - had turned greyish and cracked.
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On the stone steps of the Richards' blue-gray house, visitors gingerly laid down flowers.
Researchers have spotted a never-before-seen chemical effect in Vincent Van Gogh's Flowers In A Blue Vase that is dulling the work's vibrant yellows.
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The field had been awash with May sunshine when they set out after lunch, their schoolmates returning to classes while they, buoyant in their truancy, gathered nameless blue and white flowers that they later scattered carelessly near the dock.
The plant was small, with spiny, silvery leaves, woody stems and blue flowers.
Table settings included Colonial-style silverware and, for a contrasting sense of playfulness, loose bouquets of American flowers, reminiscent of the prairie white garden roses, blue hydrangea, star-shaped tweedia, thistle.
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Meanwhile, Ulupinar -- whose wife runs a cemetery garden business -- says the idea came to him after noticing a mix of Schalke pennants, flags, season tickets, player photos and blue-and-white flowers were already decorating hundreds of gravestones in the western city of Gelsenkirchen.
The still life depicts a blue-and-white vase holding a tight bouquet of yellow flowers atop a tablecloth of deep blue and pink.
Aramal, with pastel-blue flowers and deep-green leaves, was designed by Josef Frank in the 1940s, but it wasn't produced until 2009.
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