Top to bottom: “Flowers for Lisa #39: After Georges Braque,” “Flowers for Lisa #62: After Louise Bourgeois,” “Flowers for Lisa #51,” and “Flowers for Lisa #55,” photographs by Abelardo Morell, from his monograph Flowers for Lisa, published last October by Abrams. The concept for the book and series by the same name emerged when Morell gave Lisa, his wife of over forty years, a photograph of flowers on her birthday instead of a customary bouquet.

© The artist. Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York City