Geneviève Chapront (1909-?) - "Roses have Thorns"

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas. Hand-signed.

- Wrapped in the humble whiteness of its dress, the little one gazes between her tiny hands at the magnificent flowers of a wild rose, still blind to the sinister secret that surrounds it: the dense architecture of stems that encircle it is not only a gift of obedient, fiery petals, but a loom of sharp, dark, crouching thorns that await the first imprudent touch. In that instant of suspended grace, the esthete’s first lesson dictates: beauty never yields unscathed; it is a venomous and piercing creature that demands a blood tribute, where every perfect bloom bears on its reverse the exact seed of the wound.

- Image dimensions without frame: 91 x 72 cm / 94 x 74 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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