Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, Athens.

Exposé
Athens, Greek Artists Association, Art Exhibition, 1916, no. 121, listed in the exhibition catalogue (possibly).
Athens, Greek Artists Association, Fourth Art Exhibition, 1917, no. 55, listed in the exhibition catalogue (possibly).

Littérature
The artist's notebook, 1916 (possibly).
Pinakothiki magazine, no. 194-195, April-May 1917, p. 28, discussed (possibly).
O. Mentzafou-Polyzou, Jakobides, Adam editions, Athens 1999, no. 39, p. 359, catalogued (possibly).


Among Greek flower painters, Jakobides stands with the greatest. As noted by O. Mentzafou-Polyzou who prepared the artist's monograph, "clearly a master of the rules of composition regarding object arrangement, Jakobides employed classic models in his approach to still life, as these were preserved by tradition. Yet, he also assigned a leading role to the light falling on them and sought through stark contrast and glowing colour the greater possible fidelity in their description. His main preoccupation was to highlight the material, tactile quality of objects, whereas in his floral compositions—a genre which he fondly explored after his return from Munich to Athens—to capture freshness, delicacy, and liveliness, in tune with his search for a painting true to reality."¹ We are first aware only of beautiful flowers but as the eye follows the delicate contours of the myriad rose petals we are captured by the artist's deft brush and sensitive colour.

¹ O. Mentzafou-Polyzou., "Still Life and Flower Paintings, a Constant Occupation", in Iakovidis, a Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens 2005, p. 263.