The 1924 oil painting “Brown Roses” appears to be a preliminary work for the work “Yellow Roses” from the same year. Here we find an almost identical composition, but the painting is paler overall; the background and many areas of color that were painted in the “Yellow Roses” are still white here. In contrast to the delicate coloring of the work, the strong brown tones in the left circle segments stand out – the brown roses that give the title. Does Evard choose the brown color here to point to the “decay” of the roses, which he will increasingly dissolve into geometric forms at the height of his constructive phase? Although the work may thus have a sketch-like character on the one hand, it nevertheless acquires its own note and level of meaning through these strong brown tones.