- Year
- 1960
- Technique
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28×33 cm
- Status
- In the Artist's Estate
This work belongs to a group of paintings shaped by the artist's deeply personal memories - the hunger of childhood and the anxious uncertainty of his wartime youth.
Sparse winter space, fading light and an almost silent landscape convey not a specific place, but an inner state. The village appears distant and fragile, as if suspended between presence and disappearance.
For Maltsev, dusk was not only a time of day. It became a metaphor for memory - a quiet moment when the past returns, carrying both loss and endurance.
