Still Life with Jug and Liqueur Glass
In Still Life with Jug and Liqueur Glass, Alvi Siren creates a cool, atmospheric still life centred on a pale corked jug, a small liqueur glass, grapes, and broad leafy forms. The objects are arranged across a softly defined table, surrounded by a blue-green background that gives the composition depth, shadow, and a quietly abstract quality.
The jug stands prominently on the left, its rounded body and long neck painted in translucent tones of cream, yellow, green, and pale blue. The cork at the top adds a small but important detail, reinforcing the vessel’s connection to wine, storage, and ritual. Its luminous surface contrasts with the darker surrounding field, making the jug the main structural anchor of the painting.
Beside it, a cluster of grapes spills downward in muted greens, greys, blue-violets, and pale highlights. Their rounded forms create rhythm against the vertical lines of the jug and glass. The small liqueur glass, painted in golden yellow-green tones, stands near the centre, adding a delicate note of refinement and warmth.
On the right, broad leaves and pale botanical forms fill the composition with movement. Their shapes are loosely defined, merging with the abstract background of teal, blue, green, and shadow. This softened setting allows the still life to feel less like a fixed tabletop arrangement and more like a suspended atmosphere of fruit, vessel, glass, and vine.
Rather than a purely traditional still life, Still Life with Jug and Liqueur Glass becomes a meditation on light, taste, and quiet abundance. Through cool colour, expressive texture, and carefully balanced forms, Alvi Siren transforms the objects into a luminous arrangement of grapes, leaves, glass, and vessel held within green-blue depth.
ID 127
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Canvas width: 35 cm
Canvas height: 35 cm
Frame width: 39 cm
Frame height: 39 cm
Year: 2002
Location: held in private collection















