Slava and Katya

A dark-haired man and a blonde young woman are shown close together in half-length, both turned toward each other. He wears a pink shirt and holds a ripe peach and a pale trumpet-shaped flower; she wears a lilac tank top with her hair loose over one shoulder. Behind them a dense arc of pink, red, and white blossoms curves against a pale sky.

Smooth academic brushwork gives warm, porcelain-like skin against cooler sky blues and the saturated pinks and reds of the flowers. The symmetrical framing and fruit-and-flower attributes lend the double portrait a formal, symbolic, softly romantic tone.