Curatorial Narrative In the early 1920s, Edvard Wiebe’s Still Life with Oranges in a Basket marked a significant departure from traditional still life conventions. Executed between 1922 and 1923, this work exemplified the artist’s burgeoning interest in Abstract Expressionism, as he abandoned representational accuracy for a more gestural, intuitive approach to composition.The painting’s bold palette, featuring an array of bright oranges, greens, yellows, blues, and reds, creates a vibrant chromatic structure that imbues the space with an extraordinary sense of atmospheric weight. The thick, impasto brushwork adds a tactile quality to the surface, drawing attention to the materiality of the painting itself.The spatial rhythm established by the arrangement of objects in the basket oranges, greens, and other still life elements creates a sense of tension between the formal structure and the expressive, almost reckless application of