Still Life Peonies

Antique Oil Painting from France: A work in oil on canvas from the Belgian School of the early twentieth century. This impressive still life with a bouquet of peonies is monogrammed WJ, and is dedicated and dated 1922. 

A composition with beautiful thicknesses in material creates a desire and realism with its elements The technique is fine, measured, releasing a perfectly distributed natural light which gradually fades over the shadows and reflections. The bouquet illuminates the earthy soil with its rich palette of reds ranging from ruby to falun.