Cerise Melody

One day an artist friend presented me with a small tube of exceptionally beautiful cerise-magenta-scarlet oil paint. I couldn’t resist and just smudge it all over the canvas with a palette knife. And then I saw horses. And then the girl with a violin appeared.

I consider it to be a homage to Marc Chagall, who was born not far from my hometown (near the Latvian – Belorussian border) –

the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century” and “the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists”.