Study for the painting "Spring at the Station" / Etiud do kartyny "Vesna na stantsii"

The flattened, frontal, multifaceted composition is divided horizontally into three parts. The lower part is the station. An asphalt square. In the center is a white tetrahedral tower with a wooden superstructure. To the right is a bus, a green one-story building with a wide front door, and a wooden house. To the left are wooden buildings. Traces of melted snow and puddles on the asphalt. Figures of people in colorful clothes. In the depths are the outlines of metal poles with wires. Behind the station is a hill covered with melted snow; in its central part and to the right are curved vertical gaps. On the hill is a row of one- and two-story buildings with high gable roofs. Above them is a continuation of the hill. At its top is a row of dark gray one-story buildings. At the top edge is a strip of gray sky. The coloring is based on a combination of grayish-blue and contrasting dark brown gray tones. The author's signature is inked in the lower right corner with dark brown paint, making it difficult to read. On the upper side of the frame is black: "70.5 x 80 Etude to the painting 'Spring at the Station'. On the upper side of the frame in graphite pencil: "71.5 x 80 Domashnikov". Over red -130, black 213, red 929/89. On the right side of the frame with a graphite pencil VHPO Zh-3935. Deformation of the canvas in the upper left corner, cracking of the paint layer in the upper corners and at the bottom left and right.