RUSSIAN OIL ON CANVAS SOCIALIST PAINTING
Code: WD4814574
Dimensions:
W: 168cm (66.1")H: 108cm (42.5")D: 4cm (1.6")
£3,400.00
Mid 20th Century Russian oil on canvas painting. Circa 1940-50.
This Socialist Realist painting shows Russian workers in the fields and has a striking front-on angle with a pretty foreground of flowers and grass.
Socialist Realism is a form of modern realism imposed in Russia by Stalin following the death of Lenin in 1924. They are rigorously optimistic pictures of Soviet life.