This work from 1924 belongs to André Evard’s Place Setting series. In this series, he repeatedly takes up the still life motif of the set table in order to dissect the representational more and more into forms. In this picture, which is kept in earth tones, we still find references to the objects – glass, bottle and napkin – but the artist transforms these objects, starting from their contours, into a wide variety of geometric forms: we find, among other things, circular segments, rectangles and a multitude of triangles. Construction lines run through the work in a star shape and offer the artist the opportunity to make the play with the forms even more complex and detailed. Here one is reminded of the painter’s statement, who emphasized that his art of this time was designed with a ruler.