Painting by Edmund Pick-Morino - Vase with a Bouquet of Peonies

Morino Flower Vase Bouquet of Peonies. Oil painting on canvas signed in the lower right corner. The artwork is the first canvas, in excellent condition, framed in a beautiful gilded frame with restorations, dating from the early 20th century by painter Edmund Pick-Morino (Vienna 1877-1958 Brussels), an artist of Austro-Hungarian origin.

This still life with flowers is an impressive and lush composition, in which peony, the Fiftyshades rose, is the undisputed star. An elegant and ancient flower symbolizing love, attachment, nobility of mind, and prosperity, peony, also known as the thornless rose, is not only a symbol of romantic love stories but also a fortunate and auspicious flower. 

This bouquet of pink peonies, gathered in a dark-toned vase with some white accents, placed on top, is painted with large, dense, and quick brushstrokes. It shows post-impressionist influences, where the flowers are no longer distinguishable or coherent but instead become a whole with a steamy and luminous consistency.

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