Letter / Lyst

Two-figure composition. On the right, an old man sits by the window with the windows taped over in a crisscross pattern. He is dressed in a dark body jacket and pants tucked into his boots. His face is elongated and yellowish. The nose is straight, the eyes are large and sunken. The eyelids are drooping. The shovel-shaped chin is covered with gray stubble. Above the narrow lips are gray mustaches. He holds the edge of the bench with his hands. His legs are slightly apart, turned apart. To his left, on the bench, there is a hat with earflaps and a white triangle of a leaf. On the left side of the canvas, on a stool, in profile to the right, is an old woman in a black blouse, blue skirt, and black boots. She has a dark scarf on her head. Her hands are in her lap. Her legs are tightly clenched. The face is thin and yellow. The lips are bloodless and compressed. The eyes are closed. Above his head is a framed picture of a reproduction of Vasnetsov's Three Heroes, covered with a white towel with long, patterned ends hanging down. The wooden floor is yellow-brown. The brown window has a light green curtain shifted to the left. On the blue window sill is a black and green flower pot with a flower with large green leaves.
In the lower right corner, in black, the author's signature (initials): E.T. and the date 1972.
On the back: on the top of the fold of the canvas in black block letters: Tolkunov Egor Egorovich. 1943 "Writing". 1972. Kherson. 17 Gogol Street.
Bottom right: paper label with registration number: 42282.