1931-41 painting,
oil on
canvas, by
Ivan Albright, oblong, depicting a tall and narrow
Victorian door, painted in mixed shades of dark brown/black and yellow, on which is hung an ornate funeral wreath (what look like a mixture of decaying, dark red
roses and
lilies, with two bands of material trailing off to the left towards to the
doorknob). A little below halfway down the painting appears a
feminine hand, grasping around the doorframe, bearing a
signet ring and trailing a dark blue
handkerchief. The door is
warped and
distorted, and several of the flowers seems to have fallen to the floor below.
As with many of Albright's paintings, the interpretation depends on the conjunction of the image and the title.