Daffodils in a Green Pot — Pierre Bonnard Postcard

Daffodils in a Green Pot keeps everything simple: a tight, rounded bunch of bright yellow blooms rising from a pale sage-green cylinder, set against a ground of mottled grey-blue that never resolves into a room or a table. There is no vase's reflection to study, no cloth or fruit beside it, just colour meeting colour with almost nothing else asked of the eye. It is one of Bonnard's plainer still lifes, closer to a study than a finished scene, and that plainness is its own kind of quiet confidence. The yellow carries all the warmth the picture needs. A simple, cheerful card from the Pierre Bonnard collection, easy to send for a birthday, a spring greeting, or a flower lover's collection.