A group of stone houses present windowless walls and partially snow-covered roofs to the viewer. The foreground is given over to the white snowy ground. Beyond the houses stand some tall, bare poplars and a lone willow tree, and in the distance snow-covered fields rise up to the greenish-blue sky.
Instead of Impressionism’s shimmering light, the forms here are highlighted by the rhythm of the outlined blocks of colour across the image. The cool light reinforces the sense of silence and solitude. It is a coolness that stands in sharp contrast to the artist’s colourful images from Tahiti, but it gives an insight into his artistic development.
Kristoffer Arvidsson from The Collection Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg 2014
