Victor

A young man in a padded olive jacket and trousers tumbles head-first through a bright sky of soft white clouds, one arm flung up, his expression startled. White and yellow roses and loose petals drift around him as he falls. Below, a row of bare hands and forearms reach upward, some open, some grasping toward the falling figure and scattered flowers.

Painted in a crisp, realist manner, the figure and hands show careful anatomical detail against a flat, graphic blue-and-white sky. The cool background contrasts with the warm khaki of the clothing and the pale hands below. The suspended fall, reaching arms and drifting roses give the scene a tense, dramatic charge.