Artificial Flower with Fallings Leaves

"Like the great painters of the 19th century, Ilka Gedő paid much attention to the painting practice and composition methods of the Far East. (...) When Ilka Gedő started to work again, she concentrated on landscapes as interpreted by the painters of the Far East: plants are not ornaments or patches of colour, they are living beings, and pictures are not living nature, only its essence or counterfeit. Hence she called her series of oils and pastels of the 1960's and 1970's an artificial flower series." Szabó Júlia: "Ilka Gedő's Paintings" The New Hungarian Quarterly, 1986, no. 101