Wit stilleven met nautilus (White Still Life with Nautilus)

Another near-colourless group, a tall white enamel can trailing twine, a half-litre jug, a grey bottle, a pearly nautilus and a head of garlic on a lace-edged cloth. The picture survives on the faintest warm-cool drift within a single non-colour, the shell's iridescence the one soft spark. A virtuoso's quiet boast, holding the eye through light alone.