Contact gallery for price		Georges Jeannin 1841 – Paris – 1925 Summer Roses in a Vase Oil on canvas 21 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches (55.2 x 47.6 cm) Signed and dated lower left: S. Jeannin 1919 Georges Jeannin specialized as a flower still life painter and his works are in the impressionist style. He made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1868 and after this was a regular exhibitor there. He was later president of The French Society of Flower Painters. His works are widely collected at auction and in galleries in Europe and the U.S. In our piece Summer Roses in a Vase, Georges Jeannin has depicted a bouquet of summer roses arranged in a gray vase. The vase stands directly on the ground held in brown colors and is set against a green background. The artist has placed them in a rather nondescript environment, perhaps because he wishes viewers to consider the flowers outside of referential context. The roses, flowing over the lip of the vase, swirl out and around one another, as if craning their necks towards the light. The interplay of shapes between the foliage and blooms create a natural design, the wavy leaves weaving under, over, and around the blooms. The flowers are held in a curtain of brilliant red, pink and white colors, and we notice how Jeannin finds patterns of texture and color in the overlapping petals of each flower ever shifting as the blooms open further in the sunlight. We find a few of the blooms and leaves scattered around the vase, serving as a reminder of their transient nature.