This still life captivates with its unusual composition. Instead of centrally placed flower bouquets or fruit baskets, Evard chose to paint a composition featuring a lamp on the right side of the image, a bronze figure on the left, a stack of books in the background, and a small bouquet of peonies in the lower right. The positioning of the individual objects is particularly interesting here. All these objects appear to be placed on a type of tray or table with a high rim. The obligatory bouquet of pink peonies seems almost displaced from the pictorial space. The vase disappears behind the high rim of the display surface, while a part of the bouquet is cut off by the right edge of the image. The illuminated lamp with a white fabric shade creates light reflections on the surrounding objects. This is also visible on the bronze figure. The figure is placed on a small pedestal and depicts a standing human figure, highly reduced in form. It is turned to the right, facing the lamp, and is thus illuminated frontally by it.
Still life, 1918, oil on hardboard, 55 x 21 cm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-still-life"],"yoast_head":"\n