Spring spill / Vesnianyi rozlyv

A spring landscape. In the foreground is a meandering grey-blue river that runs deep into the composition. To the right is an image of a brown island cut off by the right edge of the canvas. In the background, to the left, there is an image of a snow-covered island with dense brown bushes cut off by the left edge of the canvas. To the left are one-storey wooden buildings, shrubs, and trees. On the horizon line in the centre is a brown strip of forest. The sky is cloudy, blue-grey. The author's signature and date are in brown paint at the bottom left: "S. Nevelstein 47". On the back - On the left side of the stretcher there is a sticker: "Nevelshtein Samuel Grigorievich 1903 Spring flood. 59.5 x 85 cm, 1947, Leningrad". In the upper right quarter - sagging canvas. At a distance of 3 cm from the lower edge of the canvas, there is a trace of a horizontal fold.