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#004305
Title: Giant Fish
Artist: Rogatov Sergey
Size: 11x4x2
Size (inches): 4.25x1.5x0.75
Price : $1650 SOLD!
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Description: This small oval box is a creation of the prominent Fedoskino artist, Sergey Rogatov. His work is a complex combination of creative connections, concise and considerable. Experience is the everlasting ingredient in this soup of artistic organization. The audience quickly becomes participant while in the immediate view of one of this master's presentations. A composition like this is a multi-featured accomplishment, a look into the mind of the artist.
The box shows fish swimming merrily in the river and a group of fishermen who intend to catch this fish. The scene is painted over shining silver powder that produces a sparkle of the grass, the sea and the trees. Gold powder is used to highlight the architecture and some of the trees. Mother-of-pearl shines through the fish depicted in the foreground, and through some areas of the sea.
The scene is framed with a gold line. On the box's sides the artist has painted fish swimming among water-plants that form together an intricate and original, gold ornament.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the box while red lacquer completes the interior of the work. The box has a hinge from the top of the scene, and rests on a flat bottom. The work is signed with the artist's name, and the year of 2008.
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