Poet with a girl

Seated in an ornate chair, a bearded man in a black hat and round glasses holds a wine glass while embracing a red-haired woman in a coral bodice and flowing golden skirt. A crowded garden surrounds them, with a rhinoceros, antelope, porcupine, pheasant, egrets, doves and a slender hound among palm and pine trees, a pale villa and tower beyond a still pond, and an old typewriter resting in the grass.

Bright, saturated color - ochre meadow, teal sky, layered greens - fills the flat, tapestry-like composition, each animal and plant painted with the same even, careful light. The stacked planes and calm illumination give the crowded scene an unreal, dreamlike stillness rather than any sense of urgency.