Evening Donets

A multi-figure composition. In the foreground is a green and ocher shore with thin-trunked trees, on which girls are depicted having a rest. In the center are three girls sitting on the grass: one on the right (crouching) in a ¾ turn and leaning to the left, arms bent and resting elbows on knees (on the left - a watch); wearing a yellow headscarf, white T-shirt, wide skirt with pink flowers; in front of her is a laughing girl (tying a handkerchief under her chin) wearing a pink blouse, a light skirt with brown stripes along the edge; behind her is a girl in a red blouse, a flowered skirt (fixing her hair). In front of them on the grass are long sticks (one has a paint brush on it), sandals and clothes. To their right is a flock of white ducks. Two girls are standing on the left: the first one with a ¾ turn to the left (combing her long hair), the second one in a swimsuit (back view), leaning to the right and putting on sandals. In the background (horizontal) is a wide blue-green river. In the distance is a narrow ocher-green strip of the opposite bank. The image is signed in red in the lower right corner by the author: A. Safargalin 1963.
On the reverse side: upper right in blue: "Evening Donets" size. 105x147 cm. Safargalin A.G. Kharkiv. At the bottom of the passport of the State Treasury of Ukraine inv.№ 13789 1964. On the stretcher art.inv.nos: top left in black: KHEM 3 (crossed out) - in red KV-322 Zh-276 Below in red: NKOHKhM Zh-115 KP-119 (crossed out). General yellowing and contamination of the cloth.