André Perrachon, Still Life With Yellow & Pink Roses

André Perrachon, Still Life With Yellow & Pink RosesThis spirited late 19th century oil painting by French artist Andr Perrachon (1827 1909) depicts a still life with an abundance of yellow and pink roses. Perrachon was a prominent and well loved painter of flora. Alive, delicately bustling, and bathed in light, theyre rendered with the utmost naturalistic effect. They radiate, glowing from inside, and shimmer amid a silvery haze. Perrachon is considered as one of the finest proponents of still life to

Bowen studied under the gregarious William Gilbert Foster (1855-1906) and became an integral member of the ‘Staithes Group’

every census throughout his life records his occupation as carpentry-related

a pocket of foliage emerges from a pond

yet they’re also grounded in the real world

Overall size: 49” x 34” / 124cm x 87cm

A sublime early 20th-century oil on canvas depicting an arctic landscape with Inuit by Danish artist

Frame quite tatty with various marks and abrasions

his works seem to represent a convergence of some of the key art developments of the 19th century

carefully coiffed moustache and furrowed brow

It’s a middle ground between worlds

Absent of detail

Signed/dated in the lower right and housed in a wooden frame