![]() ![]() In the foreground, the lady in black captures the eye. The colors, though muted, are warm, and divided into a subtle spectrum: first, the bright hues of the grass and the path, then the golden yellow of the small and younger trees, behind them the higher trees, with their brown-green leaves, and finally, the blue of the sky. ![]() The two reflecting triangles accentuate the depth of the composition and suggest the loneliness of the scene. ![]() It relies on a simple but effective compositional arrangement, with the two convergent lines formed by the edges of the path meeting those of the tree-line in the center of the canvas. This work, painted when Levitan was 19, was the first acquired by the patron Tretyakov. But he remained, throughout, true to the nationalist animus of the Peredvizhniki School. In his last works, we can sense a more explicit incorporation of the lessons of European Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as color planes become more simplistic and exaggerated.
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