A half-length nude sits at the left of a laden table, her pale body set against a ground of burnt red that deepens to aubergine at the right. Beside her, day lilies flare orange and crimson from a glass vase, their green stems bending through water; a round glass bowl of tulips and ripe fruit anchors the lower left. A cool white cloth answers the warmth behind. Figure and still life are given the same high-keyed, abundant attention — the body treated as one more living thing among the flowers and the fruit
