Cuno AMIET (1868–1961), ‘Still Life with a Rose’, 1950, oil on hardboard, monogrammed and dated ‘CA 50’ in black in the bottom right-hand corner. H. 28 x 22.5 cm Galerie Servion 1986, then a private collection, Vaud Original invoice from Galerie Servion dated 14 December 1986 Bears inventory number 21764 on the reverse The painting was first catalogued in May 1986 and is accompanied by a SIK-ISEA certificate, under archive number 57563, confirming it as an original work by Cuno Amiet. Good condition In this late composition, characterised by its great chromatic freshness, Cuno Amiet reduces the floral motif to its essentials: a red rose in full bloom in a deep green vase, rendered with broad strokes of colour and simplified planes. The deliberately pared-back composition of the image highlights the full intensity of the interplay between reds, greens and luminous whites, characteristic of the painter’s palette in his mature works. This small still life reveals the full modernity of the pictorial language developed by Amiet in the post-war period, in which colour now takes precedence over descriptive detail. The contrast between the almost sculptural density of the flower and the lightness of the background lends the work as a whole a particularly decorative quality. This intimate work perfectly illustrates the Swiss artist’s late synthesis of Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and the modern simplification of form.