In the Still Life with a Tray and Cancer, the rotation inherent in many Larionov’s canvases includes several clay bottles of beer and boiled red crayfish lying on a white napkin. Here Larionov for the first time portrayed an oval-shaped tray on which you can see the winter landscape.
The background of the picture is wallpaper, which was printed on Larionov’s own drawing. It is noteworthy that the tray and the wallpaper play in the still life the same role that in other paintings played an open window in which you could see the figure moving in the courtyard. The tray and the wallpaper open up the depicted enclosed space, leading the viewer’s associations to the wide Russian expanses.
On the wallpaper you can see the Russian church, which is slightly reminiscent of the Chinese pagoda, girls in crinolines, whose outfits are at the same time similar to Russian and oriental clothes, boys riding horses and a boy playing a pipe. All these scenes on the wallpaper are not chosen by chance, they convey to the viewer the feeling of freedom that Larionov associated with the Russian and oriental expanses. The same motifs are guessed on the tray pattern: there is no horizon visible between the snow-covered earth and the sky, the hut goes somewhere upwards, leaving a feeling of infinite space. The landscape on the tray is made in the same bright colors as the background on the wallpaper, and almost merges with the blue field of the wall.
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