Old Master Style Floral Still Life, Framed

About the Item

A portrait-format canvas in the old-master manner: an abundant bouquet of roses, peonies, tulips, cornflowers and marigolds cascades from a burnished copper-gold urn standing on a shadowed ledge. The flowers are picked out in pink, cream, coral, blue and lemon against a deep olive and umber background that lightens to a soft yellow-green glow behind the blooms. Petals are painted wet-in-wet with soft loaded strokes and lit from the left, with the darkest passages sunk almost to black at the lower left. Medium: oil on canvas. Condition: the frame is deliberately distressed with rubbing to the gilt and visible red bole; the canvas shows a warm surface haze and some grime in the dark passages but no tears, flaking or obvious craquelure.

Details

Creation Year:

mid to late 20th century, in 18th-century taste

Dimensions:

Height: 44.5 in (113.03 cm)
Width: 33.0 in (83.82 cm)
outside of frame

Medium:

oil on canvas

Period:

20Th

Condition:

Offered in the condition shown in the photographs.

Reference Number:

VO-64

Documentation:

no certificate or label photographed; the reverse was not photographed