Simple Flowers , 1966
17.8 x 14 cm (h x w)
Oil on board

Private Collection
© Estate of Alfred Cohen 2020

Anemones were one of Cohen’s favourite flower subjects. He often painted small flower compositions as gifts for friends. The shapes of anemones are relatively ‘simple’; but the simplicity here also describes the painting: the flower shapes abstracted until they are almost circles and polygons; the forms emerging from the immediate and visible brushwork and the colours almost entirely primary.

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