A still life cut in squares: the lower half is occupied by a yellow tablecloth with large red checks spread out on a table with an upright plane; in the background on the left, a French window with dark blue panes and a network of light green wooden frames. On the right, the architecture of the back of a green chair with yellow reflections completes this polyphony of tiles.

The rectangles follow one another from top to bottom: the framed drawing, the books on the table and the dark red shaded spot on the tablecloth. The inverted curves of the two vases, the rounded outline of the oval table and the branches of the bouquet make the rectilinear construction of the canvas vibrate, like fingers on guitar strings.

The colours are frank, luminous, with perfectly distributed dominants: blue in the upper left, red in the lower left, yellow in the centre and lower right, white in the upper right, with reminders: blue vase in the red zone, red book and white brush pot in the yellow zone, dark red foliage in the blue zone, brown red frame in the white zone.

The paint strokes convey the brightness of the scene, which seems to be painted at night illuminated by a strong central brush of light.

This painting was awarded the Farman prize for still life at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1960, of which Germaine Lacaze became a member the same year. The critic Guy Dornand, commenting on the SNBA exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in the newspaper Libération of 18 February 1960, praised this “luminous and sonorous” painting.