Provenance

Stephan Welz & Co., Cape Town, 6 March 2000, lot 297.

Stephan Welz & Co., Cape Town, 20 October 2009, lot 657.

Notes

Tretchikoff described his style as ‘symbolic realism’. And nowhere was this more prominent than in his flower studies. He first painted flowers in Java, enchanted by the rainbow-like colours of the cannas in his garden. But his fascination with flowers had probably started much earlier, in the Far East. In Chinese culture, each flower symbolises a quality or idea.
- Boris Gorelik