The last ray

A woman in a full checkered pink-and-red gown twists in a dancing pose at the center of a cypress grove, one arm raised; to her left a musician in a diamond-patterned costume plays a long flute, while two pale harlequin figures embrace or gesture in the background at right. Tall dark cypresses rise around them against a solid crimson sky, with only a strip of green ground visible at the bottom edge.

The saturated red backdrop is set against cool blues and greens in the costumes and trees, creating strong complementary contrast across the canvas. Flattened forms, elongated limbs and softly blended faces lend the figures a floating, theatrical quality, while the intense color charges the scene with a dramatic, almost ritual energy.