Flowers in a Yellow Vase — Pierre Bonnard Art Postcard

This Flowers gathers red roses among white and yellow blossoms into a glossy amber-yellow vase, the whole bouquet set on a red cloth against a ground so bright with sunlit yellow that the flowers seem to float rather than sit. A pale bottle stands quietly at the edge, the only cool note in an otherwise warm, high-key picture. Bonnard painted several bouquets under this same bare title, but few this light — the colour here almost overexposed, closer to midday glare than lamplight. It is airy and immediate where his darker still lifes turn inward, a bouquet caught at its most open moment. A bright, high-key card from the Pierre Bonnard collection, well suited to a summer greeting or a flower lover's wall.