Bathing Men
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Five nude male figures on a beach — one lying flat in the foreground, two seated, one standing, one bending — painted in flat planes of pink and ochre against a background of horizontal bands of lavender, blue, and peach. The bodies are simplified and monumental, the faces featureless. The brushwork is rough and visible, with the canvas showing through in places. The whole palette is pink and blue with skin and sky in close harmony. Veeber studied under Konrad Mägi at the Pallas art school in Tartu, spent two years in Paris studying with André Lhote, and was deeply influenced by Cézanne's bather compositions. He died by suicide on New Year's Day 1929 at thirty.