“Flora Yukhnovich’s Four Seasons” at The Frick Collection

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The extravagant paintings of Flora Yukhnovich take inspiration from the baroque and rococo, expressed through an abstract dynamism and thickly impastoed paint. Following its recent reopening after a major renovation, The Frick Collection has commissioned the British artist to create a site-specific response to François Boucher’s celebrated “The Four Seasons,” part of the museum’s permanent collection. Titled after each season, as in the Boucher panels, Yukhnovich’s murals fill the walls of the museum’s Cabinet Room — once the home of Boucher’s series — with pastel evocations of color and the fleeting suggestion of floral forms. Suggestive landscapes emerge from washes of saccharine tones, their loose depth and space evoking shifting atmospheres: in Winter, for instance, the pale sun glows above a pathway framed by snow-laden trees. “I wanted to create a continuous landscape that blurs the boundaries between past and present,” Yukhnovich explained, “a space where ornamentation, fantasy, and reality collide.

^{Installation view of Flora Yukhnovich’s “Four Seasons” in The Frick Collection’s Cabinet Gallery, showing “Spring” and “Summer.” Photography by Joseph Coscia Jr.}