Harvest Celebration demonstrates a satirical view of Soviet rigidity and social realism and embraces sexuality and lascivious behavior for fun. The subject is a send-up of the farm collective as an agricultural paradise pictured in official Soviet art, such as Feodor Sytskov’s ‘s Day Off at the Kolkhoz (1937)
Featured Image: Vladimir Dubosarsky and Alexander Vinogradov. Harvest Celebration (1995), oil on canvas
See Vern Swanson. Hidden Treasures: Russian and Soviet Impressionism 1930-the the 1970s. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994; http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/fedot-vasilevich-sychkov,-1870-1958-1-c-qjdmbe8dfg; Anne Applebaum. Stalin’s War on Ukraine. New York: Doubleday, 2017;