Painted in 1974, Marguerite is an exceptional example from the artist's flower series that presents a striking and accomplished composition of the perennial daisy, charged with the symbolic meaning of hope and purity. Although rendered with elements of free form, this painting shows Kayyali's refined, strong use of lines in a manner that reflects his affinity to the style of Italian frescos, which Kayyali used in many of his works following his time in Italy. As a metaphor for innocence and simplicity, though also of fleeting memories, his floral compositions do hint at the artist's melancholic state of mind as they strived, perhaps, towards an escape from an underlying sense of sorrow.