Show all images on one page	#001098 Title: Ukrainian girl with shoulder-yoke Artist: Frolova Tatiana Viktorovna Size: 13.5x13.5x5 Size (inches): 5.25x5.25x2 Price : $450 SOLD!

This box has been painted by Fedoskino artist Tatyana Frolova. This traditional for Fedoskino School composition shows a Ukrainian woman with a Yoke. Its original was painted by the famous Russian artist I.I. Sokolov; and the same scene can be found in almost every catalogue on Fedoskino lacquer miniature painting, for example in the book "Lacquer Miniatures. Fedoskino" (by N. Krestovskaya. Interbook, Moscow. 1995), on pages 42-43. The depiction of Ukranian peasant life, during the Vishnyakov and Lukutin era, was extremely popular after the smashing success of Gogol's "Ukrainian Tales". In the 1860s V. Timm published I.I. Sokolov's drawings dealing with Ukrainian peasant life in his Russian Art Newspaper (Russky Khudozhestvenny Listok); and very soon the Ukrainian Woman theme borrowed from lithographs published in this newspaper became very popular among artists of the Moscow region. The composition showing a Ukrainian woman with a Yoke is often encountered in museum collections. The young girl, dressed in traditional Ukrainian costume, is depicted by a riverside on the outskirts of a village against a light silverish background. This delicate landscape creates a naively pure image, whose lyricism is akin to the generalizing symbols redolent of folk art.
The scene is painted in bright, mellow tones. Aluminum powder is used here to enhance the color of the river, the sky, the buckets, the girl's skirt and the wreath on her head. More over, aluminum powder makes the composition look more appealing and decorative, and fills it with a magic glow.
The composition is framed with a simple gold line, while the sides of the box are decorated with two parallel gold lines. The box is made out of paper-mache. Black lacquer covers the exterior and red lacquer covers the interior of the box. The interior of the lid also includes the inscription "Fedoskino" written in yellow oil paint. The lid isn't hinged and the box sits flat. Signed with the name of the artist, village and year (2003).