Peeter Mudist is regarded as one of Estonia's most significant artists. He began his academic studies at the Technical University of Tallinn but soon turned to art, graduating from the Estonian Art Institute, now the Estonian Academy of Arts. In the early 1970s, he developed a unique visual language that clearly broke with the painting of his time. The courage to follow his own path granted him an unusual artistic and inner freedom.

Mudist occupies a special position within the Estonian art scene and is difficult to categorise. His allegorical and poetic paintings are characterised by a subdued softness, while simultaneously illuminated by a profound philosophical content. The works open up to a personal, elusive universe where the artist's experiences and convictions become palpable. Light and a sense of timelessness are recurring elements that imbue even seemingly concrete motifs with a quiet yet unsettling intensity.

In the auction's painting "Vee ääres," a female figure emerges with blurred features, her soft form reflected in a well. The scene appears both poetic and fairy-tale-like, navigating the border between the real and the unreal, the abstract and the tangible.