Viewing Flora Yuknovich: Four Seasons at The Frick Collection

British painter Flora Yukhnovich has made her name by reviving the Rococo with a contemporary edge, and now she takes on one of its great masters. For her first US museum commission, she transforms the Frick’s Cabinet Gallery with Four Seasons, a site-specific mural responding directly to François Boucher’s eighteenth-century series of the same name.

Yukhnovich’s work is immersive, atmospheric and unapologetically lush, blurring figuration and abstraction in waves of colour and movement. Here, the blossoms of spring, the heat of summer, the pleasures of autumn, and the shimmer of winter are reimagined as a continuous, enveloping landscape that plays on Boucher’s playful amorous encounters while amplifying their fantasy and excess.

Installed in the very room that once housed the museum’s Boucher panels, Yukhnovich’s mural feels both like a return and a reinvention – proof of how the language of Rococo, at once decadent and theatrical, can speak powerfully to today’s hyper-visual world.