Portrait on a blue background

An older man is shown standing frontally at full length, his head tilted down and eyes cast toward the ground. His hands hang open at his sides, and he wears a baggy khaki-tan shirt and dark brown trousers with worn, scuffed dark shoes, planted on a narrow maroon-red strip of floor.

The figure is rendered in loose, dry brushwork with visible canvas texture, especially in the mottled pale blue backdrop that behaves like an empty sky. Warm ochre and brown tones in the clothing contrast with the cool ground, and the sparse, worn surface gives the portrait a weary, solitary stillness.