Malle Leis
(1940–2017)
Flowers IX. 1972
Serigraphy. Km 61 x 61 cm (framed)
price 1 600
Malle Leis’ aesthetic vision of flowers is based on strong colour contrasts (red and green as opposing colours) and luminosities, and a composition that tends towards verticality. The graphic sheet is square, which painters generally consider a very difficult format. Yet the square has its own profound eternal meaning in relation to the category of the ideal (the New Jerusalem), which can be found in both visual art and architecture throughout the centuries. A strikingly beautiful and empowering composition by an artist who specialised to some extent in painting flowers in an aesthetic key and who came from the 1960s generation of ‘flower children’ and hippies.