Roses were among Evard’s favourite motifs, and time and again he immortalised this proud flower in his works. In this watercolour study from 1948, he arranges four red roses in a vase placed on a yellow table. The artist renders the background and the vase in white; the vase, open at the top, merges seamlessly into the background, giving the work a sketch-like quality and a great lightness—the flowers seem almost to float in the air. The paint application is delicate; even through the red petals, the white shimmers through. Roses accompanied Evard throughout his life; he depicted them in both a naturalistic and a constructivist manner. This work, too, shows how these two approaches interact: while the artist strives for realistic detail in the depiction of the petals, a more geometrising formal language predominates in the lower part of the picture.