Jewish women (Jewish shop)

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (Russia).

According to the essay of M. Tsvetaeva, the artist created this painting being impressed by her trip to the south. Views of the steppe Crimea and the way of life of ordinary residents became the topics of several series. The canvas “Jewish shop” is genre – the viewer sees the window of a modest little shop where you can buy bread and sugar, butter and fish. However, it is only the background for three characters that were chosen not accidentally. They represent three ages and three forms of a woman. A slim girl in white is probably a bride, a full-blooded lady in a bright blue dress represents maturity, and the face of the third one dried by the sun and labour, symbolizes the end of strength, beauty and life itself.