New Arbat

A full moon hangs over a Moscow avenue lined with tall illuminated apartment and office towers. Streetlamps and traffic lights punctuate the dark street, while a lit advertising sign glows beside a building on the left. In the foreground a bright green car is parked at the curb, and a line of vehicles queues along the wet roadway, their headlights and reflections streaking the shining asphalt.

Worked in pastel over a near-black ground, the scene builds its glow from dense strokes of orange, teal, and violet set against deep shadow. The broken, textured marks and saturated color contrasts give the nocturnal street a lively, electric energy.