Bouquets, around 1905

Oil on canvas 

Signed lower right

Size: 81 x 61cm

Gaston Lecreux represents bouquets of buttercups, snowballs, carnations and lilacs, which he frames through a window. The transparency of a curtain lets the day filter through, bathing the painting in a soft luminosity. The pastel colors blend into a harmonious gradation of white, pink and purple.

The painter, who specializes in painting flowers, enriches the vocabulary expected of a still life through his delicate work with light. Here, the artist chooses to represent several bouquets. Should we see a symbolism there? That of a renewal, perhaps, since the flowers of the end of winter cohabit with those of the beginning of spring.