Anemones were one of Cohen's favourite flower subjects. He often painted small flower compositions as gifts for friends. The shapes of anemones are relatively 'simple'; but the simplicity here also describes the painting: the flower shapes abstracted until they are almost circles and polygons; the forms emerging from the immediate and visible brushwork and the colours almost entirely primary.
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