1892
oil on canvas
87 х 107,6

The picture's spatial planes are represented as three different worlds. The nearest one is a shadowed bluff, from which the artist surveys the environs. Further away is an enchanted water surface, with a wooden platform sticking out over it, and a boat seemingly arrested in its centre. Behind the river, as if rising from a mirage-like play of reflections and lit by the setting sun, appears a miraculous vision - a monastery. Finally, the eye rises to the sky following the clouds melting in a soft golden glow. The artist communicates the soul's desire to get to that enchanted world of light and sounds dying in the distance. Interrupting the upward movement with transverse rhythms such as the shore line, the platform, the boat, he produces an impression of escaping image. The beckoning faraway place is unreachable, doomed to remain forever a focus of yearning in dreams.

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