ROSES BLANCHES 1923 oil on canvas 27 x 22,5 cm Price on request

ROSES ROUGES 1923 oil on canvas 27 x 22 cm Price on request

ROSES BLEUES 1924 oil on canvas 27 x 22 cm Price on request

The paintings in the Rose Series are among the key works of Evard. They vividly illustrate the successive process of abstraction in modernism, which leads from figurative representation to a largely abstract depiction of the pictorial objects. In “Roses blanches”, the classical subject of painting still has a rather plastic pictorial composition, even though the monochromatic use of grey and earthy tones shows the first steps towards abstraction. With “Roses rouge” one can observe for the first time a consistent dissolution of the representational towards a geometric design. The rose petals are represented as rotating circles on a hemisphere, the background is divided into geometrical surfaces. This process of abstraction is continued in the compositions “Roses bleues”.  The plasticity of the foreground, which had previously been hinted at by shading, is now abandoned in favour of a purely geometric, planar construction. The symmetrical arrangement around the central axis creates a spatial structure of forms and colours that is detached from the motif – an independent pictorial solution that is convincing above all through the precision of the drawing and the finely coordinated colour scheme.