Alphonse Goossens L.C. Locarno var Superba Orchid Flower

An original 1930 watercolour painting, Alphonse Goossens, L.C. Locarno var Superba Orchid Flower.

This remarkable orchid portrait is rendered with immense vibrancy and realism by the Belgian artist Alphonse Goossens (1866–1944), one of the most important botanical artists of the period for his drawings of orchids. The style in which the flower is portrayed would become the standard for orchid artists, being a frontal view of the flower at natural size, sometimes with a tinted background for emphasis, strikingly capturing the flower's delicate petal structure and symmetry.On pale green paper laid down on thin board. With gum arabic to intensify the watercolour. Artist's stamp, Stuart Low & Co stamps and inscriptions verso as shown.