Arvid's Gallery - Musicians

To Be Sung On the Water

("Auf Dem Wasser zu Singen" - title of Franz Schubert's lieder)

Oil on canvas. 123 cm X 138.5 cm (48.5" X 54.5")

The painting was done from life in one hot afternoon, and no attempt was made to make the figure or the pose realistic. The figure floats rather than sits, and the colours of the player and of the instrument merge and separate from the blue-green background.