The Sleep
Timișoara National Museum of Art

The Sleep

http://data.europeana.eu/agent/63645 · 1959

CC0 — Public Domain
Timișoara National Museum of Art

Two peasants are resting after working the fields. Far from painting just a casual scene, Baba represents the peasants as archetypal creatures investing their gesture with ritual solemnity. The rest is a dignified fall and the sleep is a surrender to the elemental world.

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