Description
Cream, red, pink and yellow roses crowd together in a dark ceramic vase, their petals built from thick, separate strokes that catch the light differently across each bloom. A warm golden background surrounds the bouquet, close enough that the flowers fill almost the entire canvas.
Painted around 1911 and held by the Hermitage Museum, the canvas (46.5 by 38.5 cm) mixes its rose colours generously rather than grouping them by shade, so the eye moves constantly across the bouquet rather than settling on one area. The print keeps that variety of hue distinct rose to rose, since the picture depends on reading many separate colours within one dense mass.



