Description of the artwork

In this work, characterised by its intense use of colour, Françoise Gilot creates a plant-based world in which nature is reimagined through a language of simplified forms and colourful rhythms. Dominated by a palette of deep blues and luminous greens, the work evokes a forest bathed in light, from which two stylised birds emerge, discreetly integrated into the composition’s structure.

Far from a naturalistic representation, Gilot constructs the space through an interplay of black lines, geometric surfaces and transparencies that fragment the landscape without ever disrupting its harmony. The birds become the true points of balance in the work: their angular silhouettes interact with the curves of the foliage and the multiple planes that make up this botanical architecture.

A painter deeply committed to observing the living world, Françoise Gilot transforms nature into a realm of invention. Trees, birds and organic elements form a recurring visual vocabulary in her work, which she constantly renews through a free style of painting, drawing inspiration from both Cubism and the explorations of lyrical abstraction.

Origin

Private Collection, USA