Flowers by Abraham Mignon Henri Matisse drawing the eye into a

drawing the eye into a world suspended between the real and the dreamed

rendered in the characteristic palette of lapis

Every detail holds true to the print

the imagery creates a layered picture of a collective imagination: familiar story-worlds made legible as place

Colour is applied with the precision of the woodblock tradition

Flowers by Abraham Mignon Henri Matisse drawing the eye into aAbraham Mignon was among the most accomplished flower painters of the Dutch Golden Age, and this composition demonstrates precisely why. A cascading arrangement of roses, tulips, poppies, and smaller blooms fills the canvas in the characteristic vanitas manner lavish abundance set against dark shadow, every petal and dewdrop rendered with an almost unsettling precision. Light falls from a single source, sculpting each flower into three dimensions and