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Light in the evening brings the sad softeness of remembering into the girls' room. The lampshade blotted out the faint light of the lamp. The ghosts of the parents are present, they are whispering and the sudden loneliness cannot be conceived.
Csók arrested this grief and freed it of cheap ways to express sympathy. The girl who has thrown herself on the table is not holding a handkerchief in her hand, neither is the girl who is sitting. They are past crying but far away from the consolation of the future: something that cannot be comprehended has befallen them.
In Réti's "Christmas of the Bohemians", the yellowish light of the lamp casts a veil over the scene, in this picture it is the bluish shade of sunset. Bastien-Lapage's influence led Csók over from dry academic drawing to more sensitive painting based on nature.
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