Nocturne With Flowers
SUBC17Italian School
c.1920–1940
Oil on canvas
Symbolist / Art Deco-influenced
Decorative Modernism
A woman emerges from brown-black darkness.
Gold skin. Black hair. Flowers suspended above the face. Long hands clasped against the body.
Everything has been stylised: the eyes, the hair, the costume, even the pose.
The subject is completely ordinary. The painting isn’t.