The Rose of the Four Winds

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: Wadsworth Athenaeum (Hartford, Connecticut, the USA).

Unlike the soft, fluctuating motifs of the early period, the artist’s later work is characterized by larger forms and sharp angles. When you are examining the picture, your gaze is fixed on a high tower, the pointed spiers of which seem to pierce the sky. Below are strange fragments resembling shells or pieces of bones. The overloaded lower part of the canvas contrasts sharply with empty skies merging with the sea somewhere in the distance, beyond the blurred horizon. In general, the picture makes an oppressive impression, aggravated by a gray lead sky, a feeling of emptiness and ruin.