Winter evening

A woman with vivid red hair stands with her back to the viewer at a tall window, looking out over snow-covered rooftops and chimneys under a darkening blue sky. On the sill in front of her a glass bowl holds cherries and dark fruit, a small black bird beside it, while a rolled-up blind hangs to one side and a heavy curtain to the other.

Cool blue dominates the canvas, broken only by ochre and amber squares of lit windows and by the woman's copper hair, the single warm note in the composition. Forms are flattened into smooth decorative planes, and the hushed, saturated blue gives the scene a quiet, melancholic evening stillness.