Chrysanthemums and Green Vase

Notes

Chrysanthemums and Green Vase, from 1951, is typical of Tretchikoff's still lifes with a smooth rendering of much of the painting. Here the entire background is given texture by the weave of the canvas picture plane that, like the striking emerald green vase, is highly finished. In contrast the bountiful chrysanthemum blooms painted in sharp citrus yellow tones are radically raised from the canvas with thick impasto brush stokes creating an astonishingly realistic appearance of the flowers.