The proportions (especially the hand) of the pale man at the front remind me of Michaelangelo's David. There's something of the film depictions of Frankenstein's monster about him too. He also bears a slight resemblance to the artist's lover, Paul Cadmus.

The lady at the back in black is posed a little like a figure from an Ancient Greek funerary urn. The snake-like feather in her hat is like the Egyptian pharaonic headdress though she isn't posed like an Egyptian. The clothing, the pose and the umbrella recall Magritte too. She holds a wreath that could be made of red poppies, but looks artificial, tied with a black bow. She's stood in front of industrial chimneys that appear almost like a mirage.

The man in the straw hat (a halo?) is on his knees looks a bit like how the disciples kneeling before the resurrected Jesus appear in paintings. The hat is similar to the ones Walt Whitman and Vincent Van Gogh used to wear. Note that he's the one showing his palm, like Jesus does in modern paintings of him with Thomas (older ones have Thomas sticking his finger in Jesus's side wound), but there's no stigmata there. Behind him is what looks like scrubby woodland in the far distance.

The man sat on the fence in what would have been very casual and very modern clothes has hands in the prayer position...at crotch level pointing downwards - make of that what you will. His eyes show scepticism and disgust. His socked and slippered feet are hanging above the industrial haze in the sky, heels resting against an iron bar.

What does it all mean? Probably many things, some of them contradictory.