The fisherman's wife dreams

A barefoot pregnant woman wrapped in a red headscarf and long red dress sits inside a wooden rowboat, hands folded over her belly as she tilts her face upward. Above her a school of oversized red fish streams across a starry black sky, while a wooden lakeside village with smoking chimneys, moored boats and a thin crescent moon is mirrored in the still water behind her.

Dense linear hatching and flat bands of red, black and ochre build the print's decorative surface, typical of the lithographic technique. Star-like dots pierce the black sky, and the mirrored village doubles every rooftop and boat, creating a hushed, dreamlike symmetry between the sleeping shore and the woman's private vision overhead.