Evening

Under a dense canopy of purple and lilac blossom against a deep blue night sky, a dark-haired man in a maroon jacket plays a long wooden pipe. A young girl in a blue dress sits in the foreground, gazing directly out, while behind the musician a pale, half-transparent female figure in blue seems to hover like an afterimage or memory.

Saturated blues, violets and greens are built up in thick, overlapping strokes, so the flowers read almost as a tapestry surrounding the figures. The cool, nocturnal palette and the ghostly overlay of the background figure give the scene a hushed, dreamlike, faintly enigmatic mood.