This work comes from the artist’s finest period, her time at the Studio for Analytical Art under Pavel Filonov. In line with the fundamental concepts of analytical art, Filonovites sought to apprehend the essence of “life as such” through the rendering of real moments. The coming into being of the “new” man, the struggle of “old” vs. “new” in life and in the individual soul, was the basic theme of artist’s easel work (Old and New, 1927, State Russian Museum).