Still Life
Pink Spiral Candles
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Series
- Still Life
Two pink spiral candles stand in fluted white candlesticks against a wall of dark teal drapery that falls in a long diagonal to a pale, luminous ground. The twisted wax is caught in cool daylight, while a small glass decanter with a blue stopper, a red apple and a green apple gather at the base.
The painter treats the heavy cloth as sculpture, carving its folds in blue-black shadow, and lets the candles and fruit supply the warmth. The high, even light gives the whole a calm, slightly austere presence.
