Maurice Schwab (XX) - Bouquet de Roses

beautiful and accomplished oil on canvas floral still life depicting an abundant bouquet of yellow and deep crimson roses arranged in a rounded blue-green glass vase, with several fallen blooms resting on the surface below. The composition is rendered with confident, expressive brushwork against a warm grey-blue tonal background, in the tradition of the French academic floral school with a touch of impressionism.
The palette — luminous cream-yellow roses accented by dark burgundy blooms against deep teal foliage — gives the work a rich and atmospheric quality characteristic of Maurice Schwab, a French 20th-century painter known for his flower still lifes and Provençal landscapes.
Signed lower left: M. Schwab. Presented in an elegant gilt wood frame with beaded and stepped moulding and a pale linen inner slip. Reverse shows canvas on a wooden stretcher with hanging wire.
Artist: Maurice Schwab (French, 20th century)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Subject: Roses in a glass vase
Framed dimensions: 65 × 55 cm
Minus frame 40 x 50cm
Weight: 2.12 kg
Frame: Gilt wood with linen liner
Condition: Good — canvas sound, colours vivid, frame with minor age wear
Period: Mid-20th century (est. 1940s–1960s)