Henri Le Fauconnier Prints – Still Life, Flowers & Seated Figures
Henri Le Fauconnier prints connect familiar objects with a strongly constructed surrounding space. A carafe, flower vase or seated reader remains recognisable among overlapping areas of colour. Explore these arrangements alongside Cubist prints, still life art and figurative painting, following the changing relation between subject and background.
Vessels within a dark layered arrangement
A Still Life with a Carafe and Glasses gathers the transparent forms low in the image beneath taller dark planes and pale rounded objects. Narrow highlights distinguish glass edges. The subdued colour keeps attention on the overlapping shapes and changes of tone rather than on a brightly separated tabletop display.
Flowers above a tall decorated vase
Nature morte places red blooms and green leaves against a warm ochre setting. Smaller cups and vessels crowd the lower foreground. Dark outlines and sloping background divisions link the different objects while preserving the flower arrangement as the scene’s clearest upright form.
A seated figure among boldly outlined objects
Little Schoolgirl sets the child behind a dark table, with coloured books and a vase of flowers nearby. A large plant rises at the left. Blue clothing and repeated curved marks make figure and room part of one active arrangement rather than isolating the sitter against a plain wall.
Related artists and collections
Compare layered objects in Marthe Donas, constructed still lifes in Juan Gris and colour planes in Georges Valmier. Further Cubist art develops the compressed space, while still life prints follows the vessels, flowers and familiar possessions within it.
Read more in our guide to Henri Le Fauconnier and Cubism.