Driving

Two figures are pressed close together at half length: at left a pale, gaunt face with wispy grey-white hair, and at right a fuller face crowned with tousled blond curls, her bare shoulder and arm turned toward the viewer. Their bodies merge into a dark, textured mass in the lower half, with indistinct rounded forms suggesting hands or an object held between them.

Rendered in a heavy, palette-knife impasto, the canvas juxtaposes smoky teal-green and charcoal shadows against a hot orange-red ground, with pale scumbled highlights carving out the two faces. Thick ridges of paint and scraped, dragged strokes give the surface a rough, agitated energy, and the ambiguous embrace between the figures lends the scene a brooding, unsettled mood.