Eggs in an Egg Crate — Fine Art

Eggs in an Egg Crate - 1975 shows a dozen brown and white shells resting in a wire tray. The eggs sit close together, with the crate lines cutting through the round forms. Mary Pratt painted the scene in a realist still life style, looking at ordinary kitchen objects with attention to surface and light.

This is a fine art print set in a frame with a back panel, so the picture stays flat and the colours do not shine under a lamp. The wire marks and the matte ground give the eggs their quiet, observed feel.

It hangs on a kitchen wall above the sink, where the eye reads the oval shapes first and the crate lines second. The pale shell tones settle next to a white tile wall.