11 March 2010. Fistful of sunshine...
A metaphor less fraught...Sergio Leone on the Volga. Here in the form of a rare Isaak Levitan portrait, the figure in a formal white dress (full-cut fabric, one imagines) with an almost invisible corsage high on her lapel. Head to the side--unexpectedly--so that the effect is one of pensivess rather than display. Grays and off-whites, merging. Recalling his landscapes, better known--Vladimirka, for instance, an empty road stretching to the horizon, intersected in the middle distance by an even more undulating path. Far off, a few trees against darkening sky--their sizes and shapes as varying nicely. World of moderation, yet vigorous throughout...
Russian...
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