Imaginary compositions

Larousse

Kees van Willigen · 1915–1990

Date

1975

Medium

Oil painting

Size

27 x 46 cm

Larousse takes up the motif of the “floating” mouth, already used in Green Bamboos (1974). The painting refers to the Larousse publishing house logo.

Ripe dandelion seed heads, which are scattered by blowing on them, are depicted as parachutes carried by the breath of mouths that are probably fictitious.