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In his pictures, Farkas portrayed figures of his childhood full of strange and distressing experiences. Farkas, who felt lonely even in a well-off family, missed psychic depth. The nightmarish family approaching from the sea reflects the loneliness of people who have become indifferent to parnership born out of necessity. The red-bearded man keeps returning in his works whose aggressive character is accentuated by his red-gloved hand holding a stick, the figure to contrast him is a woman with a bitter pale face who is holding her strikingly white hand in an unenergetic way. The composition is based on the contrast of blue and yellow: the yellow of the man's clothes and that of the sand on the sea-shore contrasts the blue of the woman's clothes and that of the sea surrounding the whole composition. A peculiar kind of bitter expressiveness characterizes this picture like other pictures which he painted during his stay in France. His best works suggest psychic suffering and moral agonies in spite of differences in form. This is what links Farkas' art to artists of École de Paris, to Soutine in special.
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