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Artists worked secluded and independently from one another, still their colours became lighter at about the same time, i.e. from the 1900s onwards. Réti says about it, "In those days I was particurlay interested in darkness, in expressing how forms are solved in it, how colours lurk behind and how soul radiates from the faces ... . The sun began to shine in many pictures, too."
Réti liked painting portraits and interiors. In this picture he portrayed his mother together with his aunt in passive restfulness. Light from the window floods the room. Réti tried plein-air painting in order to create a unity between less formal portrayal and obejectiveness, as Hollósy did. He is evaluating in a lyric way what he can see and he is attempting to create harmony between figures and their surroundings.
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