Endel Kõks painted a lot during World War II, and participated in exhibitions, but it is possible that a pressure to sell led him to make his works more realistic, with a recognisable set of motifs. Kõks’s manner of depiction in this painting, however, is more liberal, almost abstract in some places (e.g. in the background). A bouquet of flowers and plants has been placed in the heart of a red environment, surprising with its bold approach: the blossoms of flowers have been rendered with a few brush strokes in different directions and varying thickness. The red backdrop adds drama and theatricality, and the contrasts of light and dark surfaces add festivity to the picture, turning the still-life into a colour orgy, where the artist can demonstrate the entire range of his palette.
Keywords in describing Kõks’s oeuvre in 1942 were “a freshly beautiful sense of colour”, “capturing form in an almost scant simplicity of lines”, “well-considered composition” and “carefully selected colour scheme”.