Nadya

A young girl in a red dress stands before a densely patterned backdrop of dark red poppies, her dark bobbed hair and pale face contrasting with the saturated field behind her. She holds papers or photographs in one hand. To her right a small table holds a red toy elephant, books, and papers, while a stuffed toy monkey hangs from a pale pink curtain above.

The palette is almost monochromatic in deep crimson and rust reds, relieved only by the girl's pale skin and the curtain's soft pink. Light is flat and even, forms are simplified with minimal shading, and brushwork is smoothly blended on the figure but looser in the floral background. The feeling is intense and dreamlike, verging on solemn.