Man and woman

Mediums: watercolor, indigo on paper, brown ink.
Location: The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (Russia).

The artist started working on this small watercolor earlier than on the painting “Feast of the Kings”, on which he worked for about a year, and which is similar to it. In the watercolor painting, as well as in the large canvas, figures sitting on peculiar thrones and the poses of many characters with one hand pressed to their chests are similar. Such a continuity of the spatial sensation of time – a feature of analytical art – can be traced at the bottom of the picture, where important gentlemen go into oblivion in front of the cabmen, commoners and wanderers. The main figures are distinguished not only by scale, but also by special moderation – they stand out sculpturally in the composition.