Show all images on one page	#004980 Title: Forest Church Artist: Kirsanov Sergey Size: 9x9x2.5 Size (inches): 3.5x3.5x1 Price : $750 SOLD!

Sergey Kirsanov from the village of Fedoskino is known as a talented landscape painter. Being enchanted with the beauty of modest Russian nature, he created a series of works painted on this theme. These creations are penetrated the feeling of deep love to his native land with its ramshackle peasant houses, small wooden churches, boundless expanses of snow covered fields and evergreen forests.
This rectangular box shows a small wooden church situated in the forest. Grey and green tones are used here to reproduce the atmosphere of a summer evening. Mother-of-pearl is set into the sky and the water of a forest lake to create a glow of the sunset.
The scene is framed with a golden line and there is a round peace mother-of-pearl glued in the right upper corner on which the artist painted an Icon of Mother and a Child.
The box's exterior is covered with innumerable number of light brown veins scattered against the black lacquered surface; its interior is traditionally covered with red lacquer. The box is constructed of paper-mache. The lid is hinged from the top of the scene, and the box rests on a flat bottom. Signed with the artist's name.
Fine work!