Two clowns in tall striped hats sit back to back on a single stool, heads bowed, tethered by strings to a cluster of drifting balloons above them. Against a soft green haze, Pavel Filin builds the figures with loose, confident brushwork, the blue tunics and warm reddish trousers dissolving at the edges into the background. This original oil painting carries a quiet, melancholy stillness beneath its carnival colors, and is available now at Art Gallery Teplice.