Flowers and fruit (1924) by Georges Valmier Material:225g Fine Art Paper rhythmically structured composition that reflects

rhythmically structured composition that reflects the Stockholm designer's musical instincts brought into visual form

joyful shapes: organic leaf forms and saturated colour fields overlap and interlock

when the Bauhaus generation sought to replace subjective expression with a visual language grounded in universal formal principles

Plate 28 features one of the more contemplative studies in the Hundred Birds series: a single bird in a settled

letting the upper petals open into clear ground

Flowers and fruit (1924) by Georges Valmier Material:225g Fine Art Paper rhythmically structured composition that reflectsPainted in 1924, this still life reveals Valmier at the height of his Cubist inflected abstraction. Flowers and fruit dissolve into interlocking planes of vivid colour warm oranges, deep purples, and acid greens held together by confident curvilinear contours. The composition pulsates with decorative energy while retaining a clear sense of volume and spatial depth. It is a work that belongs equally to the tradition of French still life painting and to